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
Construction of an Amazon facility in Connecticut has been halted after a seventh noose was found by workers at the site on Wednesday.
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
Hartford Courantreports. Windsor is just north of Hartford, the state capital.
Amazon shuts construction site after 7th noose found By Kate Gibson
May 21, 2021 / 2:31 PM / MoneyWatch
Amazon is closing a warehouse construction site in Windsor, Connecticut, until at least next week, after the discovery of a seventh noose at the site. In the meantime, the state s NAACP chapter is demanding that law enforcement step up efforts to find those behind the incidents. We are concerned about the workers here, Scot X. Esdaile, president of the Connecticut NAACP, told a televised news conference.
A piece of rope with a loop at the end was found hanging over a beam at the site on Wednesday, weeks after the first noose at the site was found and reported on April 27, with five more ropes fashioned as nooses subsequently found.