By Emily Le Coz
JACKSON, Miss., Feb 21 (Reuters) - The University of
Mississippi wants to question three white male students who may
have been involved in draping a noose over a statue of James
Meredith, the African-American student who braved segregationist
mobs to integrate the school in 1962, campus police said on
Friday.
Calvin Sellers, university chief of police, said attorneys
for the three 19-year-old freshmen from Georgia wanted campus
police to produce an arrest warrant before they would allow them
to question the students about the act of vandalism on Sunday.
Sellers said the three students failed to appear at a
pre-arranged meeting on Thursday.
"The University Police Department had gathered enough
evidence by late Wednesday to bring charges through the student
judicial process against two of the students, and both state and
federal authorities were working in close coordination to
determine whether criminal charges were applicable," the
university said in a statement on Friday.
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