Hanging Noose At Workplace Of African-American Construction Worker Punishable As Federal Hate Crime.
African-American construction worker in Buffalo, New York to press charges against responsible parties who left a hanging noose at his work place as an act of intimidation and constituting a federal hate crime.
Hanging noose left as a message to African-American construction worker in Buffalo, New York at his work place.
Federal Hate Crime Statute: 18 U.S.C. § 245.
The relevant portion of Section 245 of Title 18, which is enforced by the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division, makes it unlawful to willfully injure, intimidate or interfere with any person, or to attempt to do so, by force or threat of force, BECAUSE OF that other person’s race, color, religion or national origin AND BECAUSE he or she is, or has been, engaging in one of six specifically-enumerated activities: enjoying employment, or any perquisite thereof, by a private or state employer.
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