Ole Miss ex-student pleads guilty to tying noose on statue

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ole Miss ex-student pleads guilty to tying noose on statue

Jeff Amy, Associated Press

Updated 12:11 pm, Thursday, March 24, 2016

A former University of Mississippi student pleaded guilty Thursday to placing a noose on the school's statue of its first black student.

Austin Reed Edenfield waived indictment and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge before U.S. District Judge Michael Mills in Oxford. The charge says Edenfield helped others threaten force to intimidate African-American students and employees at the university.

Mills will sentence Edenfield July 21. He faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. The government has recommended probation.

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Edenfield admitted to taking part in a February 2014 incident during which a noose and a former Georgia state flag with a Confederate battle emblem were placed on the Ole Miss statue of James Meredith. He integrated the university in 1962 amid rioting that was suppressed by federal troops.

Prosecutors said another former student, Graeme Phillip Harris, hatched the plan to place the noose and flag on the statue after a night of drinking with Edenfield and a third freshman in the Sigma Phil Epsilon fraternity house on campus. They said Edenfield actually tied the noose on Meredith's statue after Harris couldn't do it.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Ole-Miss-ex-student-to-plead-guilty-to-tying-7004836.php

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Austin Reed Edenfield - Snappy dressers' club



Graeme Phillip Harris



Austin and Graeme's house at the University of Mississippi.



James Meredith statue [/center]

[shenmue]

1. ...

Jeemony! Some people!

[Judi Lynn]

2. Man pleads guilty over noose on statue at University of Mississippi

Man pleads guilty over noose on statue at University of Mississippi

Reuters
By Letitia Stein
2 hours ago

Reuters) - A former University of Mississippi student pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge on Thursday, admitting to his role in draping a noose around the neck of a statue of the school's first black student, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Austin Reed Edenfield accepted a plea deal charging him with a misdemeanor count of aiding and abetting another person in using the threat of force to intimidate black students and staff at the Oxford, Mississippi school, officials said.

He is the second ex-student and fraternity member to plead guilty in the incident, which occurred in February 2014. Graeme Phillip Harris admitted to a similar charge last year and was sentenced to six months in prison.

Officials said Edenfield, then 19, along with Harris and one other person, hung a noose and a depiction of the Confederate battle flag on a statue of James Meredith, who integrated the school in 1962 amid violent protests and riots.

More:
https://news.yahoo.com/man-pleads-guilty-over-noose-statue-university-mississippi-201620704.html

[CTyankee]

3. what a loser...this guy has issues....

[raging moderate]

4. Such actions only prove to me that Black people are NOT making this up.

These nasty little white supremacists really ARE murderous, aren't they?

Say, Spike Jones and the City Slickers got it right in the forties, although they were talking about another set of delusional bullies, when they sang about the delusion of being Superman ("super DUPER supermen&quot .