Tightened security notwithstanding, an eighth noose made its way onto an Amazon construction site in Windsor, Connecticut, this week, causing it to be shut down again.
Tightened security notwithstanding, an eighth noose made its way onto an Amazon construction site in Windsor, Connecticut, this week, causing it to be shut down again.
During a press conference Thursday, Windsor Police Chief Donald Melanson said a rope, which could be interpreted as a noose, was first located hanging within overhead beams on the site Wednesday afternoon. Officials said that many workers had left the area and gone on break at the time of the incident.
The incident happened on the fourth floor of the construction site. Melanson said it was hung with the intention of creating a disturbance.
Hundreds of workers from different companies have access to the site, police have said.
This brings the total to seven noose-like ropes discovered at the site in the last month.
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Construction of an Amazon facility in Connecticut has been halted after a seventh noose was found by workers at the site on Wednesday. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Amazon has closed a massive construction site for a new warehouse in Connecticut after a seventh noose was found there.
The latest noose was found hanging from a beam during a lunch break on Wednesday, Windsor Police Chief Donald Melanson said at a press conference. We are working on it, we do have some leads in this latest incident, Melanson said.
The first noose at the Windsor site was found on April 27, the