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Amazon closes US construction site after seven nooses discovered – The Guardian
Retail giant offering $100,000 reward for more information on nooses, the first of which appeared on 27 April in Connecticut
Amazon has closed a construction site in Windsor, Connecticut, after seven nooses were discovered there in the past month.
The retail giant is offering a $100,000 reward for more information on the nooses, the first of which appeared on 27 April, hanging from a steel beam of the building.
Five more ropes that resembled a noose were found throughout the building two days later, but Amazon kept construction going until a seventh noose was discovered on Wednesday afternoon.
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