{"id":368187,"date":"2010-02-26T14:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8d9019a970b"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:15:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:15:37","slug":"noose-found-at-ucsd-triggers-probe-and-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368187","title":{"rendered":"Noose found at UCSD triggers probe and protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"altthumbnailimg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Noose Found Hanging at UCSD, Site of 'Compton Cookout'\" height=\"168\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/media\/alternatethumbnails\/story\/2010-02\/52458800-26122642.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Noose Found Hanging at UCSD, Site of 'Compton Cookout'\" width=\"300\"><\/img><\/span>On a campus already facing racial tensions, UC San Diego police said Friday that they were investigating the discovery of a noose hanging from a library bookcase and questioning a student who may be responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The probe will look into whether the noose &#8212; which was seen by some as a symbol of lynching meant to intimidate African Americans on the campus &#8212; was connected to recent racially charged incidents and subsequent protests at UCSD.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, campus officials said they were questioning a student who had come forward to take some responsibility for the noose, but that they had no additional information to release for the moment. A police statement said authorities were treating the noose, found Thursday night on a seventh-floor bookcase in Geisel Library, as a crime with \u201cintent to terrorize.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Word about the noose triggered another protest on the campus Friday morning, with about 300 students participating, a campus spokesman said. The school has been roiled since a Feb. 15 off-campus party invited guests to a \u201cCompton Cookout\u201d that mocked Black History Month.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, a campus satirical group used a derogatory term about African Americans on a campus television show. Those incidents have focused attention on UCSD&#8217;s low enrollment of black students, who make up about 1.6% of the school\u2019s undergraduates.<\/p>\n<p> &#8212; Larry Gordon <\/p>\n<p>Photo: KTLA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a campus already facing racial tensions, UC San Diego police said Friday that they were investigating the discovery of a noose hanging from a library bookcase and questioning a student who may be responsible. The probe will look into whether the noose &#8212; which was seen by some as a symbol of lynching meant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4840,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}