From 2007:
Another Fake Noose/Hate Incident
hotair.com/archives/2007/12/02/another-fake-noosehate-incident
This one occurred in a Baltimore firehouse. Like the swastikas at GWU last month, it also turns out to have been a hoax to create victims where there were none. . . .
Marvin L. “Doc” Cheatham, president of the NAACP’s Baltimore chapter, referred to the note as a threat and said it should be treated as such.
“It’s got to go federal,” Cheatham said. . .
Meanwhile, still no word on Columbia University’s noose incident.
“Marvin L. “Doc” Cheatham, president of the NAACP’s Baltimore chapter...”
A partner in the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe, no doubt.
That Columbia professor was fired for multiple counts of plagarism. NB that the noose showed up on her door AFTER the University started the case against her. Imagine that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/nyregion/24columbia.html?_r=0