Stanford launches investigation after noose found on campus: 'I was just distraught'
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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/stanford-launches-investigation-after-noose-found-on-campus-004328071.html
Stanford University is conducting an investigation after a noose was found tied to a tall bush near a campus residence, in which a group of mostly minority high school students is staying for a summer program.
According to deputies from the university's department of public safety, the three-foot-long white rope was found on the night of July 12. Cheron Perkins, a medical student from New Orleans who is working as an adviser to the students in the program, took a photo of the noose and shared the image on Twitter. She says it took Stanford police "over an hour" to respond, and that a 911 operator told her it wasn't "an emergency."
"My immediate thought was nothing but fear because I'd never seen a noose," Perkins told NBC Bay Area. "I was just distraught."
She believes that the noose, which the university said, "has no place on our campus," was a message for the minority students she is advising.
Perkins and her colleagues feel as if the issue has been "swept under the rug."
"I was terrified for my life," a program assistant, who wished not to be identified, also told the station. "I called my mom, and she was ready to put me on a plane back home. You don't know who is hanging around and what their actions might be, and we had the most minorities of all the summer camps."
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