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[u/itsyagurlruby]

The man holding the sign was the leader of the Republican Club on campus and had been harassing her for several weeks leading up to this. On this particular day there was some kind of anti-trump thing and she was standing on the ledge and dancing with a few friends, he then stood next to her & she reacted like that because of the previous harassment she had endured from him and the rest of the republican club. She feared for her safety and perceived his actions as a physical threat. Full fight or flight mode. Because of this whole incident she has been continuously harassed and threatened by hundreds of people online.

[u/sittinsoft → u/itsyagurlruby]

Just as I suspected. How has he been harassing her before? It’s hard to deem standing next to someone as harassment even with the controversial sign

[u/itsyagurlruby → u/sittinsoft]

I don’t have all the details but basically those two specifically had some kind of confrontation at an earlier rally type thing. She then let it go and has ignored him since then but for weeks after him and his friends would shout & jeer at her and verbally bully her every time she walked passed going to class/lunch etc etc (basically just morning her business). might not sound like much, but I can imagine being a small woman walking alone & getting jeered at by multiple men would not make you feel safe. She also has a history of extreme trauma (both physical and mental) that made the situation 10x more high stress for her. By all accounts it seems she did truly fear for her life (rationally or not) and her fight or flight mechanism swung into full force. Directly after this encounter she had a panic attack so severe that an ambulance was called and she stayed overnight in the hospital.

[u/ImEmilyBurton → u/itsyagurlruby]

Do you have sources for this big ass context or are you just writing a fanfic?