A noose was left hanging from a tree limb near a black cultural studies center on an American college campus.
That’s the scenario that University of Maryland police, with help from the FBI, are investigating as a possible hate crime that may be tied to a similar racial controversy playing out in Louisiana.
… There is recent precedent for racially motivated disputes on the Maryland campus. In 1999, police investigated a series of disparaging letters sent to some of the university’s black leaders. No charges were filed, Dillon said, but police did “get to the bottom” of the harassing letters.
Out of curiosity, because of the vagueness of the phrase “get to the bottom,” I checked to see if the letters were reported anywhere as a fake hate crime, something that has happened on many college campuses. In this case I didn’t find anything. Still, I don’t see any possible connection between this and the Jena 6, as the article suggests, and I think “recent” is quite a stretch for eight years ago.
