回复 3# 红烧共贪
新泽西州霍博肯警方在向法庭提交的初步文件中指控,翟田田“威胁要犯罪”,发出“恐下性威胁”(terroristic threats),“目的是要引起严重的公共不便,或将斯蒂文斯理工学院烧掉”。
terroristic threats 不是恐怖分子
US school says arrest of student being misreported
By SAMANTHA HENRY
Associated Press Writer
updated 7:45 p.m. ET, Wed., May 26, 2010
NEWARK, New Jersey - Officials at a New Jersey college where a Chinese graduate student was arrested for allegedly threatening to burn down a campus building say they're concerned that the incident is being misreported in foreign-language media.
Zhai Tiantian, a former graduate student at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, was arrested April 15 and faces a charge of making a terroristic threat.
The charge, which can refer to a range of verbal threats, has been reported by some Chinese media outlets as Zhai being arrested for allegedly being a terrorist.
College officials say that misunderstanding, as well as several foreign news reports that seem to indicate Zhai was arrested for questioning authority or clashing with a teacher, has distorted what they say is a long-running disciplinary situation into a mini-international incident.
Zhai's attorney, Ming Hai, said his client denies making the threat and feels his arrest was retaliation for arguing with a teacher, publicly criticizing the school and threatening to sue.
Stevens spokesman Michael Schinelli said Zhai was suspended March 11 — nearly a month before his arrest — after a lengthy investigation that found he had numerous violations of the school's code of conduct.
Schinelli, who declined to detail the violations citing student privacy rules, said they involved Zhai and several individuals, none of them faculty.
Zhai appealed his suspension, Schinelli said, and it was upheld. Zhai was arrested April 15 after allegedly threatening in a letter or e-mail to burn down the administration building, Schinelli said.
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