Criminal Law
A Student Is Charged After Hanging Nooses Outside of a Chicago Middle School
A student has been charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct after three nooses were found on the campus of a suburban Chicago middle school.
The boy, whose name was not released, has not been charged with a hate crime.
Evanston police said Wednesday that the Cook County state’s attorney’s office reviewed the evidence and declined to add a hate crime charge “because the actions and motive of the involved juvenile did not meet the legal, statutory elements of a hate crime.”
