Looped cable not a noose, Connecticut college president says

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Officials at a college in Conneticut received a complaint of a noose hanging from a construction site on campus but determined that the looped cable was not in fact a noose.

“A construction crew working on campus hung an American flag from a crane’s cable in recognition of Memorial Day,” Central Connecticut State University President Zulma R. Toro said in a news release quoted by the Hartford Courant. “The cable has a steel loop at its end."

Toro said officials at the New Britain-based university understand that the image was “concerning” in light of the eight nooses that have been found at an Amazon warehouse construction site in Windsor since late April. She said the university would monitor the situation.