A felony to display a noose as a threat

Gov. David Paterson signed legislation Thursday that will make it a felony to display a noose as a threat, according to the AP.

 

The crime would be punishable by up to four years in prison.

 

Paterson says the legislation still isn’t enough and New York law will need to be strengthened more, according to the report.

 

Nooses were found last year on a black professor’s door at Columbia University, outside a post office near ground zero in lower Manhattan and in locations on Long Island.