School officials in Minnesota are investigating a social media post that showed a black student with a noose around his neck, captioned, “Gotta hang ‘em all.”

“I feel heartbroken (and) little fearful because, you know, this type of hate represents a lot more than just a picture that was spread around in the school,” said the boy’s uncle, Stephan Witherspoon. “It represents a people that have been oppressed for hundreds of years — hosed and burned and lynched.”...

But they each believe the students’ actions represent a “hate crime.”

“It instills fear in our young, especially our young African American men and women,” Witherspoon said.