SAGINAW, Mich. – A black community college student faces up to 20 years in prison for allegedly posting threats online to “shoot every black person I can” on the Saginaw Valley State University campus.

Emmanuel D. Bowden, 21, was charged with making a false report or threat of terrorism this week for a post just after midnight last Friday on the social media application Yik Yak that read “I’m going to shoot every black person I can on campus. Starting tomorrow morning,” Mlive.com reports.

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Bowden lives in SVSU housing but attends Delta College, a local community college.

According to police, after the initial message received several negative replies, Bowden sent out four additional messages: “It’s a joke,” “I’m black,” “I was going to give it an hour to see how you all would react,” and “Right. I could be angry and just expressing myself.”

Yik Yak is an app uses GPS to allow users to send messages anonymously to others close by, but company also records when, where, and from what IP address the message was sent, as well as other information. University police called in the FBI, which helped to track Bowden to a residence hall on the SVSU campus, where he was arrested before 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

“While inside the residence hall, police called Bowden’s cellphone to confirm his phone was the one they believe was used to post the threat,” according to police reports cited by MLive.

Bowden was initially arrested on an unrelated warrant stemming from a credit card incident that occurred at the college convenience store Oct. 2, and was still in jail Wednesday, according to the Washington Times.

And despite Bowden’s messages claiming the threat was simply a hoax, the police report notes he “did threaten to commit an act of terrorism and did communicate that threat to another person,” MLive reports.

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Those facts are far more important than Bowden’s intentions or actual ability to carry out the threat, as state statute makes it clear “It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing the act of terrorism,” according to the news site.

RT.com reports Yik Yak is the same social media app used by two men who made threats to commit racial violence on the University of Missouri’s Columbus campus, where students are embroiled in racially charged protests.

“One of the threats was very similar to the post Bowden is accused of making, with the author saying that he would ‘shoot every black person I see.’ The author of the post was identified by police as a 19-year old white student at a Missouri campus some 90 miles away from Columbia,” according to the site.

In Michigan, Bowden remains in jail on a $10,000 or 10 percent bond for the Yik Yak case and a $4,500 or 10 percent for the credit card case, which also involved two co-defendants – Javon A. Cooney and Omari J. Willis.

He’s scheduled for back-to-back preliminary hearings on Dec. 2 and 3, both in front of District Judge M. Randall Jurrens, MLive reports.