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After a black student at the University of Ottawa detailed on social media how acampus security guard grabbed him and left him handcuffed for hours on the street, the university said it immediately launched a two-pronged investigation.

Jamal Boyce tweeted Thursday about the Wednesday incident on campus, sharing a video in which campus security is heard demanding that he produce identification or leave campus after he was accused of doing a skateboarding trick while on his way to class.

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“After letting them know that I didn’t have my wallet on me and trying to walk away, they followed me, hit my phone to the ground as I tried to record, grabbed me and put me in handcuffs,” he said.

“I was forced to sit on the busiest campus road in handcuffs for two hours,” he added, calling the experience “humiliating” and adding “uOttawa security used their authority to harass and demean me.”

Boyce, who did not immediately respond to a request for an interview on Friday, said via social media that he was ultimately released without charge in what he called an incident of “blatant racism” and racial profiling, adding the “silver lining” was to see “everyone who stayed and wouldn’t walk by as this injustice happened.