Since the beginning of the fall semester, student activists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been protesting the presence of a Confederate statue on the campus. And at the same time, the university police have stepped up their presence around the monument, known as “Silent Sam.”
But one officer went further, the activists say, dressing in plain clothes and pretending that he was a mechanic who sympathized with their cause. The Herald-Sun, a newspaper in Durham, N.C., reports that the students learned last week that “Victor” was actually a campus police officer, named Hector Borges, when they saw him in uniform responding to the explosion of a small bomb on the same quad as the statue.
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