U. of Mississippi seeks to question three students about noose on statue (James Meredith)
The University of Mississippi wants to question three white male students who may have been involved in draping a noose over a statue of James Meredith, the African-American student who braved segregationist mobs to integrate the school in 1962, campus police said on Friday.
Calvin Sellers, university chief of police, said attorneys for the three 19-year-old freshmen from Georgia wanted campus police to produce an arrest warrant before they would allow them to question the students about the act of vandalism on Sunday.
Sellers said the three students failed to appear at a pre-arranged meeting on Thursday.
"The University Police Department had gathered enough evidence by late Wednesday to bring charges through the student judicial process against two of the students, and both state and federal authorities were working in close coordination to determine whether criminal charges were applicable," the university said in a statement on Friday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/21/us-usa-mississippi-noose-idUSBREA1K1LV20140221
