Bias Incident Reports
The University of Utah will provide timely, accurate and transparent information about incidents being investigated as hate crimes, that pose physical safety risks to the campus community, or appear to create a hostile environment. Communication about potential hate crimes on campus is not analysis, or investigation results. Many cases may remain unresolved.
While providing these updates can be upsetting and unsettling for many members of our community, shining a light on hate is the best way to ensure campus safety and support victim-survivors and the broader campus community.
Incidents reported here are not comprehensive and do not include all reports of discrimination, misconduct, harassment, threats and crimes reported to the University of Utah.Click on a card to view more details.
During Reawaken USA's debate and guest speaker event outside Marriott Library on January 12, 2026 at 12 p.m., a 21-year-old student walking by disrupted the event and threatened the speaker, saying he should be shot in the neck and repeatedly made hand gestures of shooting him with a rifle.
The student was arrested by University of Utah Police and has been cited with disorderly conduct, making threats and disobeying a lawful order. He was booked into jail and released.
On Jan. 9, 2026 at 12:27 p.m., outside Marriott Library, a signature gatherer working on the effort to repeal Proposition 4 ripped up the sign of a student standing nearby who was protesting the repeal effort, before fleeing campus.
On August 24 at 1:50 p.m., resident advisors in Benchmark Plaza Building 820 reported a swastika carved on the wall inside an elevator in the building. Maintenance workers have covered the graffiti until the panel can be repaired or replaced and police are investigating.