Leach to Expand Cultural Awareness After Noose Tweet

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Mississippi State University director of athletics John Cohen has issued a statement regarding the controversial tweet posted and later deleted last week by head football coach Mike Leach.

Leach on Wednesday night tweeted a meme depicting an elderly woman knitting a noose, with the caption: "After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarf." It was deleted Thursday morning, but not before it had garnered 4,000 "likes."

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