On Friday, Oct. 26, Maya Little, a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill studying history, was found responsible by the Honor Court for violating a section of the UNC Instrument of Student Judicial Governance after pouring red ink and her own blood on the controversial Silent Sam statue that was recently toppled.

According to the Daily Tar Heel, Little was found guilty of violating Section II.C.2.A, “stealing, destroying, damaging, or misusing property belonging to the University or another individual or entity.”

The Honor Court sanctioned Little with a letter of warning and 18 hours of community service to be completed within three months.

During the second day of Honor Court hearings, Little walked out of the hearing because she said she was unable to have a fair trial due to previous comments made on social media by one of the panelists, Frank Pray, a UNC-CH student in the School of Law, in support of the statue. 

The deputy chair of the Honor Court, Amelia Ahern, a UNC-CH student in the School of Law, said during the hearing that the panelists’ personal opinions would not get in the way of Little’s ruling. 

After Ahern’s decision, Little walked out to address the actions of the Court, saying that the Honor Court only gave her five minutes to object Pray’s position on her panel. In addition, she said that she believed that the conduct of Pray went against the objective of impartiality on the Honor Court. 

“Pray claims that his vocal support for slave owners, who would not have wanted a black student at [UNC-CH], does not impair his ability to decide whether to sanction me,” Little said, reading from a prepared statement, as reported by the News & Observer. “Why then did Pray conceal his comments in favor of Silent Sam? He did so because he knows that his prior public statements make it impossible to view him as impartial. He admitted to deleting comments yesterday, at the outset of my trial, in order to appear less political for the sake of his law career.”