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In case you thought the United States lacks this kind of prosecution, an American student was charged with "one count of conspiring to violate civil rights and another count of using a threat of force to intimidate African American students due to their race."[0] after allegedly putting a noose around the statue of a famous Black civil rights figure at the University of Mississippi.

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/03/27...