“The Hidden Dores team is appalled to announce that our demonstration yesterday was met this morning with a vile act. This morning someone left a bag of feces on the porch of Vanderbilt University’s Black Cultural Center,” the group wrote their Facebook page which they later deleted. “The center has served as the nexus of many aspects of Black(sic) life on Vanderbilt’s campus since it’s (sic) inception 31 years ago. The violation of a place that in many ways is the sole home for Black(sic) students is deplorable. As many of us sit in grief, recognize that these types of actions are what we speak of when we note the reality of exclusion and isolation of students of color and specifically Black(sic) students on our campus. This act has hurt many and will not be received lightly. We will not allow for the desecration of the place we call home. As we announced yesterday and reaffirm today, we will not be silent.”

Luckily, Vanderbilt police were a little more emotionally stable than to consider the dog feces a hate crime.

Their intuition to withhold judgement proved correct, after a careful investigation showed that the dog feces was actually left by a blind girl’s service dog.

“The investigation found the bag was inadvertently left by an individual with a service dog who was authorized to be in the building who could not find a trash can near the entrance and did not wish to take the bag inside. VUPD has concluded, based on their investigation, that there was no criminal or malicious intent in this action, and the investigation is considered closed,” The VUPD said a statement to the school newspaper.

The Hidden Dores apologized on their Facebook page for having such a misinformed and overly strong reaction.