The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that a black man was arrested last week in connection with the hanging of a noose on a statue of late rapper Tupac Shakur in Georgia.
As previously reported, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts in Stone Mountain announced it had been vandalized last month. In addition to the noose offense, which police later said was actually a cross hung on a string, the Center also said that defamatory stickers and papers were left on the statue and that a pair of underwear had been wrapped around its head. The building was also defaced in the incident, the Center announced.
Kenneth Anthony Wilson, 43, was arrested and charged with a felony second-degree charge of criminal damage to property and is being held at jail in DeKalb County jail on a $1,500 bond, reports the paper.
A police spokesperson told the newspaper that authorities doubt Wilson had a racial motive in the incident.
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