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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 06:29 PM Mar 2015

Ole Miss Student Indicted For Hanging Noose Around Statue Honoring School's First Black Enrollee

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/27/man-indicted-noose-james-meredith_n_6957408.html

A federal grand jury indicted a student at the University of Mississippi on two separate civil rights charges on Friday for hanging a noose and a flag depicting a Confederate symbol around a campus statue honoring James Meredith, the first African-American student to attend the university.

Ole Miss student Graeme Phillip Harris was indicted on one count of conspiracy to violate civil rights and one count of using a threat of force to intimidate black students because of their race or color, prosecutors said.

"This shameful and ignorant act is an insult to all Americans and a violation of our most strongly-held values," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. "No one should ever be made to feel threatened or intimidated because of what they look like or who they are. By taking appropriate action to hold wrongdoers accountable, the Department of Justice is sending a clear message that flagrant infringements of our historic civil rights will not go unnoticed or unpunished."

Prosecutors said Harris conspired with other students and draped the racially offensive items around the statue on the morning of Feb. 16, 2014. The Mississippi NAACP described the act as a "racial hate crime."


The irony is that Meredith is about as staunch a repuke as the come, a Moonie, in fact.
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Ole Miss Student Indicted For Hanging Noose Around Statue Honoring School's First Black Enrollee (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2015 OP
The stupidity has been doubled! hifiguy Mar 2015 #1
Are there any Moonies who aren't 'pukes? KamaAina Mar 2015 #2
Probably not, but to see both "attributes" mentioned hifiguy Mar 2015 #3
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