Over 30 students gathered outside the Events Center on Friday evening in protest of the fall concert headliner, Fetty Wap, who was recorded on video last year threatening the life of the mother of his child.

In November 2015, a video surfaced of Fetty Wap threatening the woman, Lezhae Zeona. No charges were filed, but a video of the incident circulated on social media.

Monet Schultz, the president of the Black Student Union (BSU) and a junior majoring in sociology, said that she and other students were protesting Fetty Wap because of his violent actions against the woman and the implications that brings to Binghamton University.

“Fetty Wap is a perpetuator of violence against women, specifically the mother of his child,” Schultz said. “We’re here to show that the University should not be bringing artists who are violent to women in general, not only just women of color but women in general, to our campus. It makes us feel unsafe and it reflects poorly on the University.”

Schultz said she spoke with Max Maurice, the vice president for programming for the Student Association (SA) and a senior majoring in electrical engineering, after the announcement that Fetty Wap would headline the fall concert. Maurice told her the concert could not be cancelled.

Maurice wrote in an email that the SA Programming Board (SAPB) found out about Fetty Wap’s problematic behavior after it had already finalized the contract for the headliner, and that cancelling would have resulted in a significant amount of debt for the SA and no fall concert.

Maurice also wrote that he supported the protest and that Fetty Wap’s actions do not align with the SA’s views or opinions.

“This, in no way, reflects SAPB or, as a whole, the SA’s stance on domestic violence,” Maurice wrote. “I fully respected and was in support for the movement that BSU had initiated and I let them know that from the beginning—all the way from meeting with their E-Board as an individual to ensuring their safety by keeping Athletic Facilities, UPD, and the [Multicultural Resource Center] in the loop.”

Schultz said that the SA claiming to be unaware of Fetty Wap’s past behavior was not a valid excuse.

“They need to do better at researching who they are bringing to campus, they need to do better with making students feel safe,” Schultz said.

A sophomore who attended the concert but wished to remain anonymous said that she was unaware of Fetty Wap’s violent behavior and that the protest made her feel guilty for going to an event that she felt was supposed to be fun.

“I just think that we’re out here to have fun, and I know that that they’re protesting abuse but I would understand more if they weren’t in our faces,” she said. “I just came out here to have fun and I don’t want to have to feel bad for going to a concert.”

Members of the Women’s Student Union, X-Factor Step Team, the Thurgood Marshall Pre-Law Society and the African Student Organization also participated in the protest donning signs with statistics about domestic violence, such as “4 in 10 black women experience domestic violence,” and chanting, “Your silence is violence.”

Epiphany Munoz, one of the protesters and a senior majoring in human development, said that she would like the protest to increase awareness and create a larger conversation about domestic violence.

“The short-term goal is strictly awareness,” Munoz said. “It sucks because we found out about it so late in the game because so many people bought their tickets, but from here on out we’re hoping that this will help spark a larger conversation.”