Civil rights violations alleged in Baltimore County noose incident - baltimoresun.com: An Essex man has been indicted on civil rights charges stemming from an April 2010 incident in which a dead raccoon was found hanging from a noose on a Middle River family's front porch.
According to the indictment, which comes nearly two years after the incident, Joshua Wall conspired with four unnamed people to hang a dead raccoon from the familiy's porch on April 29, 2010. Wall is the only person charged in the case; the other co-conspirators are listed only by their initials.
Wall's mother, Rebecca Stracke, said in a telephone interview that her son "doesn't hate black people."
