The controversial Halloween display of an effigy of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hanging by a noose outside a home near Los Angeles has been taken down, local authorities said Thursday.
The people who hung the figure from the roof of their house "began to realize what they had done caused a little more of a reaction than they had hoped for," said spokesman for the sheriff of Los Angeles Steve Whitmore. For the Halloween holiday many Americans decorate their homes with ghoulish displays of monsters, witches and ghosts.
The incident has prompted furor in the US media, and on Wednesday dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Morrisette's house to protest the display. Some 500,000 people are expected in the gay enclave Friday for one of the biggest Halloween carnivals in the country.
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