(24/7 News/ WHYN Radio) -- A colleague of a Smith College employee who called campus police to report a black student looked "out of place" on campus is speaking out.
In a letter sent to college president Kathleen McCartney and other officials and shared with the Springfield Republican, Tracey Putnam Culver says the incident involving student Oumou Kanoute was not an incident of racial bias.
She claims the college's administration was, quote, "so intent on their outrage that they failed to ask important questions of staff that could have cleared this issue up immediately".
Putnam Culver said the "out of place" comment was due to the fact that the student was in a building that was closed with no one else inside, and that the employee who called police was following protocol.