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TexasTowelie

(116,798 posts)
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 12:36 AM Nov 2017

She rubbed bloody tampons on her roommate's bag - then bragged about it online, cops say

College roommates can be notoriously hard to handle in the best cases, especially for those away from home for the first time. But a viral video posted Monday by a University of Hartford student that alleges her roommate bragged about covertly harassing her for weeks has drawn national outrage and birthed the hashtag #justiceforjazzy.

Jazzy Rowe, who is black and a freshman at the University of Hartford, posted a video Monday evening that detailed the shocking allegations against her roommate.

In the video, she describes how she was finishing her move out of the apartment into another room when her roommate, later identified as freshman Brianna Brochu, who is white, paused her movie and asked if she was moving out, Rowe said in the video.

When Rowe told her roommate she was indeed moving out, Rowe said Brochu began texting on her phone.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article182021981.html

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She rubbed bloody tampons on her roommate's bag - then bragged about it online, cops say (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2017 OP
Brochu was expelled from Hartford exboyfil Nov 2017 #1
I hope Jazzy Rowe presses charges blueinredohio Nov 2017 #2

exboyfil

(18,000 posts)
1. Brochu was expelled from Hartford
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 12:49 AM
Nov 2017

In addition to the criminal charges. It seems that intentional biological contamination should warrant a felony, but the law has not kept up with the science.

https://www.bet.com/news/national/2017/11/01/university-of-hartford-expels-brianna-brochu.html

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