A Clark Atlanta University student says a routine walk to class turned into a humiliating, hours-long detention, after she couldn’t produce her campus ID when a university police officer stopped her near campus. FOX 5 Atlanta reporter Annie Mapp, reporting live near CAU, said the student’s name is Sierra Morrison and that she believes the officer’s response went far beyond what the situation required.
Mapp’s report centers on a piece of cellphone video recorded by one of Morrison’s classmates – video that captures what many students never expect to see in an academic setting: a campus police officer appearing at a classroom door and taking a student into custody in front of everyone.
Morrison told Mapp she understands the idea behind strict identification protocols, especially at a university that takes campus access seriously, but she says there has to be a point where safety policy ends and unnecessary force begins, and she believes her case crossed that line…