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[QUOTE]Originally posted by glassman: [QB] [b] Nooses, Symbols of Race Hatred, At Center of Workplace Lawsuits By SANA SIWOLOP Published: July 10, 2000 Gloria Hamilton never saw a double-looped noose hanging on her door in 1992. Friends at the Detroit cargo facility where she worked as a service manager for Northwest Airlines took the noose down before she came to work that day, she said, so that she would not be upset seeing it. Many companies still prefer to settle such cases out of court, but officials at the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission say they have at least 20 noose-related lawsuits pending or recently resolved. For an agency that files only a few hundred lawsuits a year, they add, that is a disproportionately high number. Jeff Lanza, a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Kansas City, Mo., says his office is investigating two cases of nooses left in workplaces. The regional office of the equal employment agency in Charlotte, N.C., has three racial harassment lawsuits pending where nooses were said to be involved. The Miami office has an equal number, including one in which a Sanibel Island, Fla., country club has been charged with failing to act against several workers accused of holding up a hangman's noose to a black groundskeeper before asking him whether he wanted ''to go for a ride.'' Art Cassell, a member of the board of governors of the Sanctuary Golf Club in Sanibel, said the suit was ''completely without merit.'' The Dallas office of the commission is investigating four such cases. In Detroit, the agency is continuing to pursue a lawsuit on behalf of Ms. Hamilton. And the agency has one current lawsuit in California. Mr. Lanza, the Kansas City F.B.I. agent, said that until recently cross burnings seemed to be the ''hate crime of choice,'' in his area, but that noose incidents are now appearing instead. ''I've been here 12 years and I can't remember any other noose cases that preceded the two we now have,'' Mr. Lanza said. The Justice Department considers noose incidents to be federal crimes of intimidation, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. [/b] [i]The Justice Department considers noose incidents to be federal crimes of intimidation, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. [/i] so much for the DA not being able to find a law to support prosecution... [URL=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E3DF1238F933A25754C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2]http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E3DF1238F933A25754C0A9669C8B6 3&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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