OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland’s mayor said five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and racially-charged symbols of terror but a resident said they are merely exercise equipment that he put up there months ago.
Mayor Libby Schaaf said Wedesday that a hate crime investigation was under way after a social media post identified a noose at the city’s popular Lake Merritt. Police said they searched the area on Tuesday and found five ropes attached to trees.
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-Trin
Shoulda paid the fees and got a permit. What? You think cuz it's a 'public' park that you pay taxes to upkeep that you can do anything you like in it?
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Interesting - but without pictures of said ropes, with the knotted loops in them, don't call them a 'noose'. I and almost everyone else know what the knot called 'noose' looks like. Further, someone in the comments on the article called the knots 'slip knots'. I have trouble visualizing how 'slip knots' would work in a work-out routine. So more BS to stir the hate pot. Jerks!
ReplyDeleteA hangman's noose is a slip knot. That is, it slips to close the loop.
DeleteJudge Leroy Parker's gallows: https://www.flickr.com/photos/timthetrumpetguy/8256560732
ReplyDeleteMaybe several hundred thousand of us need to send examples of nooses to the Oakland city mayor's office.
ReplyDeleteNot racist when the noose is intended as a political message...
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Exercise ropes to mimic a swing apparatus......
ReplyDeletePut up by a Black man and his friends.......How’s that racist.....?
Lighten the fuck up......
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