Af­ter a noose was found at NC plant, Mer­ck launch­es in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion while de­cry­ing racist acts

Mer­ck is in­ves­ti­gat­ing af­ter it says a noose was found at one of its man­u­fac­tur­ing plants in the Durham, NC area, prompt­ing a fierce re­buke from the com­pa­ny, the Raleigh News & Ob­serv­er re­port­ed Sun­day.

The al­leged noose was re­moved from the New Jer­sey drug­mak­er’s fa­cil­i­ty im­me­di­ate­ly, the com­pa­ny told the pa­per in an email, af­ter be­ing found at a con­struc­tion site for the 262-acre fa­cil­i­ty. An email signed by 17 ex­ec­u­tives went out to em­ploy­ees say­ing racist acts won’t be tol­er­at­ed, ac­cord­ing to the News & Ob­serv­er.

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