WWU student charged with hate crime for alleged online threats

A suspended Western Washington University student acknowledged to a campus police officer that he wrote “Let’s lynch her” on an online thread about a black student leader but said he promptly deleted it, according to the Whatcom County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

Tysen Campbell, who is white, was charged Thursday with malicious harassment for the Nov. 22 post on the anonymous messaging service Yik Yak in a thread about student president Belina Seare, charging documents say.