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Eastern Michigan Officals Say No Charges Expected After Black Doll Found Hanging In Dorm Room

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Officials say no charges are expected after a black doll was found hanging from a shower rod inside an Eastern Michigan University dorm.

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The Ypsilanti school says in a statement its police department submitted a report on the investigation to the Washtenaw County prosecutor's office and included a request for an ethnic intimidation charge, but prosecutors this week declined the request.

Best Hall Eastern Michigan
(Credit: Eastern Michigan University)

The prosecutor's office says it determined the alleged actions didn't meet the legal requirements for an ethnic intimidation charge.

The university has said a resident adviser in Best Hall found the doll Feb. 11 in a bathroom shared by suitemates and a guest of one of the suitemates told investigators it was placed there as a "prank." The school says university police "took the case very seriously" and dedicated "extensive resources" to the investigation.

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