NEW YORK – The graduate school where a noose was found on the door of a black professor agreed Thursday to turn over security videotape after withholding it while police sought a subpoena to acquire the evidence.
Spokeswoman Diane Dobry of Teachers College – Columbia University’s graduate school of education – said privacy laws required it to demand a court order.
Investigators plan to review footage from digital security cameras in and around the building where the noose was discovered early Tuesday morning on the doorknob of the office of Madonna Constantine, New York police spokesman Paul Browne said.
Police also were testing the twine for DNA evidence and interviewing students and faculty, but they had no suspects.
Students, faculty and administrators denounced the attack on Constantine, a professor of education and psychology who has written about race.
