Three students at a Long Island high school were arrested after taunting African-American classmates by lynching a black doll on the day Coretta Scott King died, police said.
The trio of white students from the H.B. Ward Technical and Academic Center in Riverhead allegedly put a noose around the head of an action figure and hung it from the door of their auto-shop class on Jan. 31, police said. The stunt prompted laughter from some, but two black students didn’t find it funny and the principal called the cops.
The suspects each face two counts of second-degree harassment.