Frannie Block Discusses ‘How a Town Turned a Child’s ‘Cry For Help’ Into a Hate Crime’

Frannie Block Discusses ‘How a Town Turned a Child’s ‘Cry For Help’ Into a Hate Crime’

Last Saturday, we published an explosive story by our reporter Frannie Block about a “hate crime” that shook the town of Evanston, Illinois, in 2022.After three nooses were found in a bush near Haven Middle School, an 11-year-old boy and his 12-year-old friend were vilified as racists, and a family was driven out of town. Now, two and a half years later, the father of the second boy has revealed the truth to The Free Press. As police concluded i…