'Officials at Michigan State University investigated and released strongly worded statements earlier this week because a female student claimed to find a noose on the handle of a stairwell door in a residence hall.
Turns out, the alleged "noose" was just a stray shoelace.
The first report of the packaged leather shoelace someone decided was a noose occurred on Wednesday morning, reports the Lansing State Journal.
Police — and, of course, the office of institutional equity — investigated the shoelace after a female student reported it as a noose.
The president of Michigan State University, Lou Anna Simon, rapidly released a statement denouncing nooses and describing the shoelace hanging on a dorm door in Holden Hall as "a racial incident."
"A student reported a noose was hung outside of her room," Simon's statement said. "I want to recognize the courage it took for the student to report this incident."
"This type of behavior is not tolerated on our campus," the taxpayer-funded school president also said. "No Spartan should ever feel targeted based on their race, or other ways in which they identify. A noose is a symbol of intimidation and threat that has a horrendous history in America."
By Wednesday afternoon, campus police managed to locate a shoelace which matched the "noose." The police found it outside the dormitory.'
More hysteria about 'racism' all over university campuses and the mainstream media.
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