WIGGINS, Miss. (AP) The president of the Mississippi NAACP is demanding a federal hate crime investigation after the parents of a black high school student said as many as four white students put a noose around their son's neck at school.
''No child should be walking down the hall or in a locker room and be accosted with a noose around their neck,'' president Derrick Johnson said Monday during a news conference in Wiggins. ''This is 2016, not 1916. This is America. This is a place where children should go to school and feel safe in their environment.