A Smith College employee has been placed on leave after calling campus security on a black student because she "seemed to be out of place," according to MassLive.

Amy Hunter, the Massachusetts college's interim director of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, told the news site on Friday that the employee will be placed on leave until its external investigation into the incident concludes.

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The development stems from an incident that occurred this week on Smith's campus.

Oumou Kanoute, a sophomore who is working as a teaching assistant and residential adviser, said in a Facebook post that she was taking a work break on Tuesday when she was approached by a police officer asking her why she was on the campus.

"I did nothing wrong, I wasn’t making any noise or bothering anyone,” Kanoute wrote on Facebook. “All I did was be black.”

The post had over 3,000 reactions and about 2,700 shares as of Friday afternoon.

The college affirmed on Wednesday that the officer who approached Kanoute was responding to a call from a college staffer — one who had reported seeing an unknown person who "seemed to be out of place.”

Smith College said in a statement that that campus police “found nothing suspicious” about Kanoute’s presence and that it intended to conduct an investigation of the incident with Human Resources and Campus Police.

Kanoute demanded in a Facebook post on Wednesday that the staffer's name be made public so he or she "can confront and acknowledge the harm done to me as s [sic] student."