Mississippi: Call for investigation over 'noose put on black student'

[malaise]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37760340
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rights group in the US state of Mississippi has demanded a federal hate crime investigation after the family of a black high school student said white students put a noose around his neck.

The alleged incident took place during a break in football practice, according to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

As many as four students are believed to have been involved in the case.

The alleged victim, a second-year student football player at Stone High School in Wiggins, has not been identified. He has since returned to school and football practice.

Names and ages of the students accused have also not been released, but reports say they are all under 17.

In the 13 October incident, the noose was "yanked backward" while on the student's neck as the group was in the locker room, Derrick Johnson, president of the Mississippi NAACP, said.

"No child should be walking down the hall or in a locker room and be accosted with a noose around their neck," he told reporters.

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Expel them! I hope the Feds get involved. Lock them Up!

[Stuart G]

1. k and r

[silverweb]

2. More young deplorables.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]There'd better be a full investigation - with consequences!

[malaise]

6. As Michael Moore pointed out

This is close to their last gasp - their way of life is going to be rejected again and eight years later they now have to accept that Obama was the opposite of their centuries old stereotypes Now they will be forced to deal with matters gender. We're just equal humans - deal with it.

[silverweb]

10. Agreed.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The sooner they start learning that, the better, and the younger they are when they begin, the easier it will go for them later on. A hard lesson or two now would help.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Awful!

[Solly Mack]

4. An investigation should be a given, and if it isn't, then someone needs to answer

for why it isn't.

This type of depravity, and it is depraved, should never be tolerated.

[Hekate]

5. Expulsion from that school. Prosecution (as juveniles) for hate crime. Finally...

Split the little gang up among 4 different high schools as a condition of their probation.

That stunt is just fucking unacceptable.

[malaise]

7. So you're giving them probation for a hate crime

These are racist 17 year old teenagers.

[Hekate]

8. Prosecution does not equal probation. First you do the time. Afterward...

Only after serving whatever punishment is meted out do you get probation.

[malaise]

9. OK Thanks

[tblue37]

11. That would be parole. nt