The UC San Diego student reportedly responsible for hanging a noose last week in a campus library issued a public, but anonymous, apology Monday and said she had no racist motivation.
“As a minority student who sympathizes with the students that have been affected by the recent issues on campus, I am distraught to know that I have unintentionally added to their pain,” the student wrote. She was suspended Friday and remains under investigation for a possible hate crime. [emphasis added]
Oakland Corporation Yard Noose – December 12, 2014
A reported “noose” tied to the back of a city truck in August, which stirred already simmering racial tensions at Oakland’s Corporation Yard, was not an intended act of racial harassment, a city-commissioned report has found.
The 25-page report by the law firm Hanson Bridgett immediately came under attack by SEIU Local 1021, the union that represents the two workers who spotted the rope tied to a bar on the back of a city-issued pickup truck and filed a complaint.
According to the report, a union representative changed the rope’s position on the crossbar so that it looked much more like a hangman’s noose shortly before reporters arrived to snap photos. Originally the knot of the rope was not dangling from the crossbar, the investigation found, but was looped against the crossbar.
University of Delaware – September 23, 2015
University of Delaware officials said three apparent “nooses” found hanging outside a campus performance hall Tuesday night were not “instruments of a hate crime,” but harmless remnants of lanterns used during a campus event.
Students claimed that an image of an untied rope laid on the ground was a noose placed on the Lincoln Park campus by a student who was animated by Yiannopoulos’ lecture that occurred last week. Students reported the “noose” to campus security, who claimed that they are investigating the incident.
Click the link above and take a gander at the photo of his horrible “noose.” Man alive.
University of Maryland – June 2017
“Earlier today, we were notified of a knotted piece of plastic wrap laying on the ground in the 7500 block of Baltimore Ave. Police were notified out of concern for possible hate-bias,” the University of Maryland Police Department said in a statement.
It was a loop at the end of a piece of plastic.
Washington D.C. Construction Site – August 2017
After investigating the situation, police determined that the construction crew was using the rope “to move equipment.” Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Aquita Brown told DCist that the incident is not being investigated as a hate-bias crime.
Jussie Smollett – February 2019
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson expressed shock in a press conference Thursday over Empire actor Jussie Smollett using the “symbolism of a noose” as part of a staged hate crime against himself.
Juicy, Juicy, Juicy…
Oakland’s Lake Merritt – June 2020
Victor Sengbe, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were part of a rigging that he and his friends used as part of a larger swing system. He also shared video of the swing in use.
[S]omeone decided to freak out over a loop tied into a rope that’s used to pull down a garage door. Of course, Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton is pretty sure Bubba is still the victim here.