There seem to be three different episodes jammed together here:
"The Sumner County Sheriff's Department is investigating a possible hate crime after racist graffiti and a paper-towel noose were found in a boys restroom at Gallatin High School on Tuesday.
The graffiti defamed a black administrator at the school, said Sumner County Sheriff Bob Barker. A paper-towel noose was found draped over a stall.
Barker would not disclose the details of the graffiti but characterized it as derogatory and non-threatening. Investigators are trying to determine whether the act is a "copycat" crime of similar incidents last month at two schools in Williamson County.
On Feb. 1, the principal at Poplar Grove School in Franklin discovered a string tied in a loop and racist graffiti on a bathroom stall. Later that month, a janitor found racial epithets on a bathroom wall at Freedom Middle School.
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Must not be "derogatory and non-threatening" about a black? I guess that IS the rule these days. Were the graffiti and the noose connected? Who knows?
I am not surprised at the prolifieration of nooses though. There has been such hysteria about even the mention of a noose that it must tempt mischievous kids to leave one or two lying around and observe the fevered reactions.
And since when did anyone take restroom graffiti seriously?
