Mizzou Campus Police to Students: Call 911 'Immediately' If You Hear 'Hurtful Speech'

"To continue to ensure that the University of Missouri campus remains safe…"

According to Twitchy, a former University of Missouri grad posted a screenshot of an e-mail she received exhorting students to contact campus police "immediately" upon witnessing or hearing hurtful speech.

Madi Alexander, also a former New York Times journalist, sent the screen cap out on Twitter:

 

 

She then posed these three questions:

 

 

The e-mail sent out by campus police acknowledges that "hateful and hurtful speech are not crimes," while at the same time threatens "disciplinary action" if the individuals doing the offense are students. But as The Daily Caller notes, previous court rulings have nearly always been in favor of protecting speech outside of class at public colleges.

But the larger question remains, as pointed out by another Twitter user:

 

 

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