Skeleton hung from fire truck ladder at school event draws racism complaint

At a trunk-or-treat event in a school parking lot, a fire company raised a ladder and hung a fake skeleton from it by the neck. A Black attendee said the display evoked lynchings of Black people and asked firefighters to remove it; they did not.

• Coxsackie, United States
• Oct 30, 2026
• Severity 1 of 5 — Discriminatory speech or policy