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Blue_Tires

(56,620 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 10:45 AM Jan 2017

Hmm... Almost like there's a connection between the two:

MADISON, Wis. - A University Wisconsin-Madison student who is trying to start a white nationalist movement on campus previously served time in a federal prison, according to court records.

Daniel Dropik, 33, pleaded guilty to arson charges after starting fires to two churches with predominantly black congregations -- one in Milwaukee and the other in Michigan -- in 2005.

He was sentenced to 5 years and 3 months in prison.

A fire on April 16 caused approximately $1,000 damage to the Greater Love Missionary Baptist Church in Milwaukee. Another fire the next day caused $5,000 damage to the Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church in Lansing, Michigan.

According to court documents, Dropik set the fires as racial retaliation for prior encounters with African-Americans not related to either church. According to the documents, Dropik set the fires after he was allegedly beat up by several black men at a party near the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank addressed the findings Thursday with the campus.

"I have also become aware that he was convicted in 2005 of racially motivated arsons of two African-American churches. I am appalled by attacks on churches and by organizations that express hatred of people of color, Jews, Muslims or any other identity," Blank said in the statement.

http://www.channel3000.com/news/crime/uw-student-trying-to-start-alt-right-group-pled-guilty-to-arson-of-black-churches/294657140

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Hmm... Almost like there's a connection between the two: (Original Post) Blue_Tires Jan 2017 OP
Apparently, there is no question of UW's application Chitown Kev Jan 2017 #1

Chitown Kev

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1. Apparently, there is no question of UW's application
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 02:50 PM
Jan 2017

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that asks if you have ever committed any criminal offenses...which seems strange to me...This was a rather routine question when I was applying to complete 4-year undergrad almost 15 years ago.

The question sometimes varies between whether you have ever committed a felony or any criminal offense...I had to submit my rap sheet to the University of Illinois in order to be accepted there (I didn't go because of other reasons)...

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