City Employee Charged With Putting Noose On Her Own Desk, Faking ‘Hate Crime’

A black city official in Pennsylvania is charged with faking a racist threat that triggered outrage from activists and a response from the FBI.

Allentown, Pennsylvania school board member LaTarsha Brown allegedly planned a small noose on her own desk in Allentown’s City Hall in January before telling authorities she was targeted, police said Monday in a press release  Brown previously filed workplace discrimination claims against City Hall but now faces possible jail time over the noose incident, which prompted cries of rampant bigotry from figures such as Democratic city council member Ce-Ce Gerlach, local media reported.

“Our employees are not safe. The black employees are not safe. It’s everyone,” Gerlach declared in January when the noose claim was first reported. “It’s the white allies are not safe. Brown people are not safe. Gay people are not safe. Anyone in any marginalized community when you are working in a building in which a noose was found, you are not safe,” Gerlach said.

Brown and Gerlach did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation