Police surrounded a man carrying a fake plastic gun near Old Main yesterday afternoon after someone mistook the toy for an actual weapon.
At least five police cars and several officers with their guns drawn surrounded Servant Bishop Chicago near the building.
Chicago walked with the gun in a holster attached to his hip when a person called police to report a man carrying a gun.
Robb Fountain, a UAPD motor officer, said the gun turned out to be a fake.
"It turned out he did (have a gun), but it was a toy that shoots rubber bands," he said.
Michael Golden, a political science junior, said he saw police out in a full force of unmarked vehicles.
"I was leaving my class, and I saw a cop coming from behind Old Main and two cops with their guns drawn," he said.
Chicago said it didn't matter that he had a toy gun. He also said that he was racially profiled.
"It's the same treatment I get when I go to suburbia," he said. "People don't want to see people like me so they call the police."
But Fountain said UAPD takes every report seriously because of recent events and the fact that weapons are not allowed on campus. Police take all possible precautions to ensure campus safety, he said.
"With the College of Nursing shootings and Columbine, people are more cautious," he said.
Police determined that no one was in any danger and released the suspect.