Nevuk
10/31/08, 12:20 AM
Source: http://kykernel.com/2008/10/29/obama-effigy-found-on-rose-street/#more-7171
October 29, 2008 by Jill Laster (http://kykernel.com/author/jill-laster/)
A likeness of Barack Obama was found hanging from a noose in a campus tree Wednesday.
UK Police received a report at 7:45 a.m. that the Democratic presidential candidate’s likeness was hanging from a tree between Parking Structure #2 and the Mining and Mineral Resources Building near the W. T. Young Library walkway. At 8:25 a.m., members of UK’s physical plant division cut the effigy down using a crane, said UK spokeswoman Kathy Johnson.
No suspects have been identified yet, but UK Police are working with federal authorities on the case, Johnson said. Secret Service was called as part of standard protocol, she said.
...I'm glad I don't go to UK, not that it's confined to there :
UK is not the first place to have a symbol against Obama or other contenders in the 2008 presidential race.
A similar incident occurred two weeks ago when a man, Mike Lunsford, hung an Obama effigy in his yard in Fairfield, Ohio, about 100 miles north of Lexington.
A life-size representation of Sarah Palin hanging from the front of a West Hollywood man’s house has caused controversy as well. The man, Chad Michael Morrisette, had defended the statue’s presence, citing First Amendment rights.
At George Fox University, a small Christian college near Portland, Ore., an Obama effigy was cut down on Sept. 23.
Two Arkansas men were arrested this week in connection with a plot to kill Obama as well as shoot or decapitate 88 black people. Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of Helena-West Helena, Ark., planned on killing 88 because each word of “Heil Hitler” begins with H, the eighth letter in the alphabet, police said.
The effigy’s message is especially strong in southern states such as Kentucky because of lynching’s tie to the region’s past, said UK political science professor Christopher Rice. The practice was used not just to kill people but also to scare black people who witnessed the suffering.
October 29, 2008 by Jill Laster (http://kykernel.com/author/jill-laster/)
A likeness of Barack Obama was found hanging from a noose in a campus tree Wednesday.
UK Police received a report at 7:45 a.m. that the Democratic presidential candidate’s likeness was hanging from a tree between Parking Structure #2 and the Mining and Mineral Resources Building near the W. T. Young Library walkway. At 8:25 a.m., members of UK’s physical plant division cut the effigy down using a crane, said UK spokeswoman Kathy Johnson.
No suspects have been identified yet, but UK Police are working with federal authorities on the case, Johnson said. Secret Service was called as part of standard protocol, she said.
...I'm glad I don't go to UK, not that it's confined to there :
UK is not the first place to have a symbol against Obama or other contenders in the 2008 presidential race.
A similar incident occurred two weeks ago when a man, Mike Lunsford, hung an Obama effigy in his yard in Fairfield, Ohio, about 100 miles north of Lexington.
A life-size representation of Sarah Palin hanging from the front of a West Hollywood man’s house has caused controversy as well. The man, Chad Michael Morrisette, had defended the statue’s presence, citing First Amendment rights.
At George Fox University, a small Christian college near Portland, Ore., an Obama effigy was cut down on Sept. 23.
Two Arkansas men were arrested this week in connection with a plot to kill Obama as well as shoot or decapitate 88 black people. Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of Helena-West Helena, Ark., planned on killing 88 because each word of “Heil Hitler” begins with H, the eighth letter in the alphabet, police said.
The effigy’s message is especially strong in southern states such as Kentucky because of lynching’s tie to the region’s past, said UK political science professor Christopher Rice. The practice was used not just to kill people but also to scare black people who witnessed the suffering.