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State officials and NAACP gather outside Windsor Amazon construction site Friday to denounce racism in community after noose was found last week

Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, Windsor Mayor Don Trinks, various NAACP representatives and members of the Windsor community gathered Friday outside the Amazon construction site where a noose was found last week to not only denounce the presence of racism in the town, but also demand a call to action from Amazon and the community to bring those responsible for the potential hate crime to justice.

Throughout the last week of April, police responded to reports of a noose, and at least five ropes that could be interpreted as nooses found at the site near Kennedy Road, where a new fulfillment center is being built.