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04/27/2008: "Civil rights marchers intimidated with nooses"

A teenager pleaded guilty Friday to a federal hate crime of threatening and intimidating civil rights marchers near Jena, Louisiana, last year by displaying hangman's nooses from the back of a pickup truck.

I-Reporter Casanova Love, 26, was visiting his family in Louisiana and said he witnessed the event and sent a photograph of the truck to CNN.

"If the police had not stepped in, I fear what might have happened,"Love said.

[ Presumably he means the teenager could have got lynched for his loopy behavior. ]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/26/jena.noose/?iref=mpstoryview