What is with these nooses lately?

New York City delivery driver was handed one by a customer. A high school football player had one thrown around his neck. And at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, one was left in one of the halls.

Now, the Star Tribune reports that the U.S Mint in Philadelphia, the nation's first and largest coinage facility, has placed an employee on administrative leave after said employee left a noose on the chair of a black colleague.

Reports state that the employee fashioned the noose using rope that mint workers use to seal coin bags once they are full of shiny new coins.

This unnamed employee walked over to his black co-worker's desk in the middle of the afternoon, and left it on the black man's chair.

And he didn't even try to be sneaky about it!

We know that the man who is on leave placed the noose at his colleague's desk because the whole thing was caught on the mint's surveillance cameras.

The U.S Treasury Department's inspector general implemented an internal investigation after several black workers at the plant contacted their union president regarding the hate crime.

A spokesman for the Treasury Department told the Associated Press that the department has "absolutely zero tolerance for the kind of misconduct reported at the mint."

The Anti-Defamation League made a comment on the incident, wanting to make sure everyone understood why people are reacting to the man's actions with such horror.

The noose, the ADL helpfully explained, is "comparable in the emotions that it evokes to that of the swastika for Jews."

Exactly what will happen to the white coin maker is unclear. With evidence in the case as stark as the surveillance tape, however, it is hard to see how the man might escape this ugly incident without some form of punishment.