White Mississippi students put noose around black student’s neck and ‘yanked’
The NAACP wants this investigated as a hate crime.
The black student, a sophomore football player at Stone High School in Wiggins, Miss., was in a locker room on Oct. 13 when as many as four white students tossed a rope around his neck and pulled it tight, Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a news conference Monday.
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“No child should be walking down the hall or in a locker room and be accosted with a noose around their neck,” Johnson said. “This is 2016, not 1916. This is America. This is a place where children should go to school and feel safe in their environment.”
The student’s parents, Hollis and Stacey Payton, stood with Johnson in front of the Stone County Courthouse but did not speak.
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