The assault of a UW-Platteville student on campus May 3 has been initially classified as a hate crime.

During the incident, homophobic slurs were used against the student, who is gay.

“Any time where we have a situation where it could possibly be a hate crime, we list it as such,” Laurel Skrede, chief of the UW-P campus police department, said. If a case may be a hate crime, it’s easier to classify it as such in the beginning of the investigation rather than after the fact.

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