Illinois college student charged with hate crime for placing noose on campus: Police

ABC News ^ | September 3, 2019 | Karma Alenl

[C19fan]

A University of Illinois student was charged with a hate crime on Tuesday for allegedly placing a noose in a campus residence hall.

Andrew Smith, a 19-year-old sophomore, was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and committing a hate crime, which is a felony, after students found a noose hanging inside an elevator over the weekend, according to university police.

News of the finding began to make rounds on social media as students expressed their outrage. That's when a woman who said she was with Smith when he tied the noose reportedly called campus police to report him.

[C19fan]

I think this person has a good case her First Amendment rights are being violated. What she did is in poor taste but it is not a crime. She did not threaten a particular person.

[AppyPappy]

Especially since nooses are displayed at historical parks

[JudgemAll]

Meanwhile a media apparatus collectively chanting death to America is unscathed

Police go after small game only

[Moonman62]

“Andrew” is a weirdo.

Look at the picture:

https://www.theroot.com/u-of-illinois-student-charged-with-hate-crime-accused-1837856778

[Red Badger]

She?........

[cgbg]

I am confused—how many lynchings happened inside elevators? ;-)

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Since when is Pissin' off the press a hate crime?

[dsrtsage]

Democrats in favor the day used to hang both blacks and those that helped blacks such as republicans

[MplsSteve]

Special memo to Andrew Smith:

If you’re gonna do something stupid, do not do it in the presence of others whom you cannot trust 110%.

[Cboldt]

We get ghosts in nooses hanging in the woods, near walkways, during the halloween season. Everybody hates ghosts. Who knew it was a felony?

[vetvetdoug]

Andrew doesn’t look like he’s from Normal, Illinois, does he?

[Skywise]

Whoa - that’s a mannn baby, yeah!

[beef]

A woman named Andrew? I think this was a false flag that backfired.

[I want the USA back]

Right. It is not a threat. The left is criminalizing everything done by Whiteys.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

That's when a woman who said she was with Smith when he tied the noose reportedly called campus police to report him.

The East German Stasi would be very proud of this excellent work by the Comrade.

[gcparent]

Jussie same state of Illinois.

[Moonman62]

I say the weirdo was making a hoax hate crime.

[real saxophonist]

I went to college with a girl named Michael Ann. An actual girl. She was a mediocre student, and now she's probably a mediocre teacher somewhere in middle Georgia.

Weird name.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Oh boy...the liberal hierarchy of Aggrieved Groups is at work here. Who wins? The tranny “Andrew”? The aggrieved female in the elevator with tranny Andrew? The NAACP? The DA?

Shouldn’t tranny Andrew trump angry POCs these days?