{"id":2480,"date":"2010-08-12T08:05:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2010-08-12T08:05:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T12:05:18","slug":"more-racial-tension-in-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/08\/12\/more-racial-tension-in-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"More racial tension in the North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We blogged last month about an alleged case of racial bullying in Saranac Lake&#8217;s public schools.\u00a0 Now the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_0b8745f6-a532-11df-9787-001cc4c002e0.html\">Post-Star is reporting<\/a> on a dust-up in Glens Falls where a white man allegedly threatened to hang a black neighbor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He said, &#8216;This is what I&#8217;m going to hang your black ass with,'&#8221; the alleged victim, Toi Rucker, told police.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, George M. Allen, 31, of Fredella Avenue faces a felony count of criminal possession of a weapon and misdemeanor count of menacing after the incident on Fredella Avenue, Glens Falls Police Sgt. Michelle Arnold said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Allen was allegedly brandishing a home-made noose when he made the threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We blogged last month about an alleged case of racial bullying in Saranac Lake&#8217;s public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}