(CNN)As a noted memoirist and New York Times columnist who writes often about race, Charles Blow has spoken about the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, deaths that sparked a national debate over how police treat African-American men. On Monday, Blow wrote about another young black man's encounter with police -- his son, who was allegedly held at gunpoint on the Yale University campus where he's a student. Blow took to Twitter on Sunday, writing that he was "fuming" after his son called to tell him what happened Saturday -- that he was walking out of the library when university police "accosted" him and drew their weapons. Blow tweeted that his son was detained because he "fit the description" of a suspect.
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Columnist Charles Blow tweeted that he was angry when his son was wrongfully detained at Yale
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Son described to his father, Blow writes, that an officer brandished his gun
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Yale confirmed that police were looking for a "tall, African-American, college-aged student"
The officer, who himself is @placeholder, was responding to a specific description relayed by individuals who had reported a crime in progress," it read.