Noose found hanging in Long Island police station

[ariesgem]

A noose was found dangling in a Long Island town's police department, horrifying officials who rushed to condemn the hateful act.

The scandal at the Hempstead Police Department began early Friday, when a maintenance man spotted the noose hanging from a pipe in a men's locker room.

Officials said they were stunned that racism would rear its head in the diverse department - and questioned whether the act was linked to a deputy chief's recent promotion or a push to recruit more minorities.

"I used to read about this with the KKK, as far back as I can remember," said Perry Pettus, a town trustee. "To hear about something like this in this community, it's just a sad situation."

Nassau County and Hempstead police were investigating who hung the noose, long an emblem of lynchings and racism in the Old South. Scorn for the symbol has been renewed since three nooses were hung outside a school in Jena, La., last year, prompting race-related fights and arrests that have captivated the country.

"It's just mindboggling in the wake of the high-profile case in Jena that you would do that, that someone would be so full of hate," said Hempstead Mayor Wayne Hall.

In Hempstead, officials said about half of the 107-member department are minorities. Department officials recently hung a banner announcing their participation in an effort to recruit more women and minorities to be cops.

Several community leaders expressed concern that the noose could be linked to the April promotion of Willie Dixon, who is black, to deputy police chief.

Wing would not discuss what evidence was collected in the locker room, but confirmed that only cops have access to the basement room.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/30/2007-09-30_noose_found_hanging_in_long_island_polic-1.html

[hedgehog]

1. I think it's a rule that every police department have at least one

jackass around.

[Robson]

2. Who did it and why?

Sorry, I've never been one to buy into the importance of symbolism especially when the media usually overblows the significance and attention. A noose is nothing unless it is around someone's neck. It could have been placed there by anyone looking for the attention that it received. Unless it can be proven that it was placed there to intimidate and that can't possibly be done unless minds can be read and the perpetrator identified....it means nothing. Somehow we've gone from "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me" to the over-PC reaction that we have today and I blame that on an overenthusiastic and over-dramatization by the media that only serves to divide us further.

[BlooInBloo]

3. ROFLMAO!!!

[NOLALady]

4. You are kidding.

Right?:crazy:

[Robson]

7. I was hoping that others had some insight here

How do you know it wasn't done by someone in or outside of this police dept looking for sympathy?

Not possible you say? BS.

The world is full of false flag incidents intended to provide an outcome that is beneficial to the perpetrator, but harmful to others. I for one am not willing to jump naievely into the fray by claiming that it had to be a white racist that perpetrated it. It could have been a black racist. Or it could have been a jokster just looking for attention. The obvious is not always the answer.

As I said the noose doesn't mean a thing until the perpetrator is found and then it requires knowing his motivation.

Don't jump to conclusions or didn't Duke lynching teach you anything?

[BlooInBloo]

9. White folks are SOOOOO glad for Duke - now they can claim it ALL the time!

W00t!!!

[Robson]

10. Sorry to bother you with the possibilities

your mind, as well as the others who commented is already made up.

[BlooInBloo]

11. Reverse racism! Reverse racism! Reverse racism!

[hedgehog]

5. I've seen both pentagrams and swastikas painted on walls by

people who couldn't tell you the difference between the two, couldn't tell you which end of the pentagram goes up or when World War II started or what side we were on. All they know is it gets a lot of attention. Never the less, paint an upside down pentagram on a church and people will see it as an attack by satanists. Paint a swastika on a synagogue and you will arouse memories of the Holocaust. Just because the jackass who hung the noose may not have meant it that way doesn't mean that blacks are overreacting when they see it as a threat. The jackass may not know what he is doing, but he is playing with a symbol that means lynching.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. Did you hang a noose somewhere in your past?

Judging by that post of yours, it sounds like you did. :eyes:

[tyedyeto]

8. So the nooses at Jena HS meant nothing?

Whoever hung them there and at this police station did it for kicks or ????

You actually think that these nooses mean 'nothing' to fellow officers or students?

[Forkboy]

14. Alrighty then.

[provis99]

12. how do they know who did it and why?

Maybe it was a bunch of kinky cops playing the sexual "choking game". It is Long Island, after all.

[BlooInBloo]

13. Yeah. Maybe.