Mississippi University Looks to Question Students Who Put Noose on Statue of Civil Rights Figure

The University of Mississippi wants to question three white male students who may have been involved in draping a noose and a Confederate flag over a statue of James Meredith, the African-American student who braved segregationist mobs to integrate the school in 1962, campus police said on Friday.

Calvin Sellers, the university chief of police, said attorneys for the three 19-year-olds from Georgia wanted campus police to produce an arrest warrant before they would allow them to question the students about the act of vandalism, which occurred early on Sunday.

Sellers said the three students failed to appear at a pre-arranged meeting on Thursday.

"The University Police Department had gathered enough evidence by late Wednesday to bring charges through the student judicial process against two of the students, and both state and federal authorities were working in close coordination to determine whether criminal charges were applicable," the university said in a statement on Friday.

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Update:

A fraternity chapter was indefinitely suspended and three of its members were kicked out over claims that they put a noose on a statue of the University of Mississippi's first black student.

The fraternity said it may hand over the identities of the students suspected of defacing the statue of James Meredith, who was the first black student to enroll at the then all-white college.

In a statement, Sigma Phi Epsilon said it suspended the Alpha Chapter at the university and the chapter voted to expel all three men.

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