Hundreds of people have been demanding that an Ohio State University administrator to be fired after she called for compassion for the student who drove into a crowd of students and faculty on Monday morning and slashed at people with a butcher knife.

Eleven people were hospitalized immediately after the attack, which sent the screaming students fleeing for safety and barricading themselves in classrooms. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a junior at Ohio State, had been shot fatally within a minute by a university police officer.

In the aftermath of the attack, some people have shared photos of Artan after he had been killed. They applauded the officer’s action, which they felt had saved lives.

Though some celebrated those photos as signifying the swift end to the attack, others were troubled by them, finding them gruesome or counter to efforts to focus on campus unity and healing.

A petition calling for Thompson’s termination at Ohio State had gathered more than 900 signatures by Thursday afternoon.

The petition also objected to her use of social media hashtags invoking the Black Lives Matter movement and called to hold police accountable for violence against black men. It deemed those references racially divisive.

By Prakriti Neogi