ExxonMobil Sued Over Hangman’s Noose Display at Louisiana Plant

Exxon Mobil Corp., doing business as ExxonMobil Chemical Corp., faces a race discrimination lawsuit after it allegedly failed to take effective measures to prevent the display of hangman’s nooses in Baton Rouge, La., the EEOC said Thursday.

A Black employee at an ExxonMobil chemical plant reported finding a hangman’s noose at a worksite in 2020, the fourth report of a noose at the complex. The company allegedly investigated some of the incidents, but not all, and failed to end the harassment, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said.

Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of ...