The Los Angeles Times is reporting that preliminary results from an autopsy on the body of Otis Byrd, the man officials found hanging from a tree in Mississippi Thursday, suggests the cause of death was suicide. Investigators, however, have not yet released Byrd’s official cause of death. “Everybody wants answers and wants them quickly,” Special FBI […]
UPDATE: 5:30 P.M. EST The Claiborne County branch of the NAACP has announced that the man found hanging from a tree in Mississippi is 54-year-old Otis Byrd. WLBT reports: In a news release, the FBI say the body was found during a ground search by the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Wildlife Fisheries and Parks. Otis James […]
Members of New Jersey’s Phillipsburg High School wrestling team who took a controversial picture of themselves wearing hoods surrounding a Black wrestling dummy with a noose wrapped around his neck will not face criminal charges, said Warren County prosecutor’s office on Thursday. RELATED: Noose Tied On Ole Miss Integration Statue Ole Miss Frat Suspended, Noose Suspects Kicked Out The wrestlers — […]
Eight members of the Phillipsburg High School wrestling team in New Jersey claim that a controversial picture of them wearing hoods surrounding a Black wrestling dummy with a noose wrapped around his neck was intended to depict a suicide, not a lynching, reports NJ.com. RELATED: Noose Tied On Ole Miss Integration Statue Ole Miss Frat Suspended, Noose […]
NEW YORK — A clerk for the ASPCA records department took a photo of a noose in the garage of their offices. The worker, Sanoy Fleming, complained to her superiors when she was told the rope was there for “operational purposes.” Cross With Racial Slurs And “Burn In Hell” Put On Black Man’s Lawn Hate […]
New York Fire Department electrician, Gregory Seabrook, found a noose in his locker after suing the FDNY for racial discrimination. The New York Daily News reports: Gregory Seabrook, an FDNY communications electrician for nearly 20 years, found the noose Thursday at the FDNY facility at 87 Union St. in Brooklyn, his lawyers said yesterday. “There’s […]
A doll was found hanging by a noose in front of an African American church in Washington D.C. The Washington Post reports: Laurel police were trying Monday to determine who hung a doll from a noose in front of an African American church on Laurel Park Drive late Saturday or early Sunday, authorities said. A […]
MANCHESTER, Conn. — Omar Thornton sat calmly in a meeting with union representative and his supervisors as they showed a video of him stealing beer from the distributor where he worked.
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It seems as if the health care vote has awakened racism on the right wing as many protesters have turned to civil rights era racist tactics such as calling Black congressmen the n-word and spitting on them. Now right wing activists angry at the recent health care vote have sent faxes of a noose to […]
