Apparently Antioch is the shittiest most ghetto neighborhood in Nashville so this is probably second nature to them.
There is no apparently about it. Antioch is the shit ghetto. Let me tell you a story.
Now, fast background. In the 70s, Nashville unified the metro and country governments because there weren't enough people outside of the urban area to support basic social services like electric service/sewer/fire/trash. So the city limits were effectly extended to the county line.
Nashville boomed in the 60s and 70s in the "country music explosion" and collapsed in 80s. Downtown nashville was shady with Black and White trash bars and lots of crime. There is still an area south of broadway with a shooting or stabbing every weekend, but unless you are a tremendous douchebag, its 100% safe because its all locals beefing with each other and they don't have time for you; all the shootings and stabbings are solved inabout 20 minutes, its not random. Anyway.
In the 90s, Nashville wanted to clean up and get those sweet tourist dollars flowing again. So the Police liasons sat down with some
RANDOM CITIZENS who were mostly black and explained "MNPD is going to be stepping up patrols in the downtown area. We are going to be chasing off hobos, addicts, corner dealers or anyone we think looks like any of those people.
Anyone who looks like they might give granny a worrisome feeling, they are going to be hassled and searched by the cops on the regular. We are going to expand those patrols to make sure everywhere adjacent to downtown is likewise free of negative elements so they don't wander in and cause a bad time. This is going to take a lot of police, and we're going to have to pull patrols from somewhere to make this happen. We are goign to be pulling those patrols from this town here to the south called Antioch which is already pretty distressed and mostly black. Cough. Cough."
And the local hood niggers got the hint. All the drug dealer bullshit moved to antioch, its the slurry hole for Nashville's criminal element.
So the only really shocking thing here is that a bunch of other students didn't pull their own pieces and shoot back.
additional fun story spring boarding off the background: Vanderbilt University is in Nashville. Due to agreements from the 1800s, they have their own police force. When the concept of precincts became a thing, Vanderbilt University Police became their own wholly independent precinct, but the campus cops are sworn peace officers with arrest authority.
Because they are city cops and the city and country government merged, that means their authority extends all over the county.
That means in Nashville, the Campus Cops can chase you the county line.