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MARISA MILLER | MANAGING EDITOR | mnmille1@butler.edu
The Butler University Police Department sent out a tweet late Oct. 1, that created concern throughout the Butler community.
BUPD responded to an incident on Oct. 1 when a student reported a car slowly driving by while she was walking to her sorority house. The car turned out to be an UberEats delivery driver.
BUPD posted a tweet about the incident with an attached photo stating, “Keep Calm and Carry On.”
https://twitter.com/ButlerUpolice/status/1046947402844913665
BUPD Chief John Conley said the late shift sergeant’s intention with the tweet was not to be negative, but to update students of the event.
“The intention there was to get something for somebody to stop and look at it,” Conley said. “[With] the term ‘Keep Calm and Carry On,’ all he meant by that was carry on doing what you are doing. If you see something, call us. You call people, we respond, we stop people and check them out. So it wasn’t meant in a belittling way or to be insensitive.”
The attached photo was added to the tweet so that students would be more apt to see the information within the tweet, Conley said.
“It’s frustrating because I understand the issues that students are having over suspicious people,” Conley said. “We’ve been trying to address it and trying to figure out ways to communicate information out and get it out, so that the students aren’t left in the dark as to what is going on.”
Conley said communication has been something BUPD is continuing to work on. In a recent town hall meeting hosted by the Student Government Association, Conley said BUPD would try to be more active on social media in order to keep students informed.
BUPD also responded to their own tweet late in the afternoon of Oct. 2 in response to student concerns regarding the post.
https://twitter.com/ButlerUpolice/status/1047210837662810113
Students and parents were quick to respond on the night of Oct. 1 and throughout the day on Oct. 2, mostly through quoting BUPD’s original tweet.
https://twitter.com/bayleejohnson_/status/1047163485233328128
https://twitter.com/dee_beckman/status/1047115477573619712
https://twitter.com/rachel_ramey32/status/1047086399151849472
https://twitter.com/thammond1124/status/1047163824376336384
https://twitter.com/Melanie9382/status/1047133855675748355
https://twitter.com/ylrac/status/1047162895321243648
https://twitter.com/sh3lbyj0/status/1047163383311683584
https://twitter.com/MegRichardson__/status/1047170058336833536
https://twitter.com/scoopy_noopers/status/1047173825320894466
https://twitter.com/m_schro97/status/1047181670439378945
https://twitter.com/paytnicole18/status/1047219322370908161
https://twitter.com/paaigebragg/status/1047188979731365894
https://twitter.com/libbia29/status/1047179167605936128
https://twitter.com/peter_hutson/status/1047171920179998720
https://twitter.com/Deanaleks_/status/1047169058393792513
https://twitter.com/ooolivia_kremer/status/1047192017124646912
https://twitter.com/myauntchristine/status/1047192270716510209
https://twitter.com/_maddiejmiller_/status/1047204154685513728
https://twitter.com/_maddiejmiller_/status/1047207756657299456
https://twitter.com/sullymiller1/status/1047208189190660096
https://twitter.com/MERE_galla11/status/1047221511470370816
Digital managing editor Zach Horrall also contributed to this story.