Posted on 07/19/2019 7:22:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A few weeks ago, the University of Michigan Hospital launched an investigation after a supposed noose was found on an employee’s desk. Now the investigation has concluded after finding that it wasn’t a noose at all.
Is anyone surprised?
The university’s Division of Public Safety and Security released this statement:
DPSS statement on investigation of possible hate crime at Michigan Medicine
Following an extensive investigation, the University of Michigan’s Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS) has concluded that the rope resembling a noose found at University Hospital was not the result of a hate crime.
On June 20, 2019, DPSS received a report that a Michigan Medicine employee found a spool of rope with a knot in it resembling a noose sitting on a shared workspace in University Hospital.
Based on multiple witness interviews and other evidence, DPSS does not believe that the incident involving the rope was a hate crime. If relevant new information comes forward, the case will be reopened.
During the investigation, it was learned that a spool of rope utilized for medical procedures was being used by a person on a break to practice tying a “Uni Knot,” which is a type of knot used for fishing. When the spool was returned to the storage area, the knot was still in place and discovered the following day by an employee.
So it was a Uni Knot. Those are apparently a common sight among fishing enthusiasts:
When this story first broke, as usual, it was reported with a sense of panic by many media outlets.
From the New American:
Hospital Hysteria
MichiganLive.com opened its breathless report on the medical-school hate hoax in Ann Arbor this way:
“University of Michigan police are investigating a possible racially motivated threat against two Michigan Medicine employees who found a noose left in their work area Thursday, June 20,” the website reported.
Thus did the dean, Dr. Marschall Runge, spring into action: “Yesterday, in one of our hospitals, a noose — a symbol of hate and discrimination — was found at the work station of two of our employees,” he warned. “We have taken immediate action to have this investigated as both an act of discrimination and a criminal act of ethnic intimidation.”
Ethnic intimidation in Ann Arbor, Michigan? In 2019?
Intoned Runge, “this act of hate violates all of the values that we hold dear and will not be tolerated.”
WDIV News in Detroit noted that students were “disturbed” by the situation:
Well, everyone can rest easy now.
It was just another campus panic over nothing.
I knew that was coming.
/as foretold in the cheese prophesy
I better be careful where I leave my fishing knot visual guide. Do not want any woke person thinking I am learning how to make hanging nooses.
A noose once bit my sister.
“You would think there was nothing of interest in the world that doesn’t involve race or queers.”
100% annoying, ain’t it? Yeesh!
Is this some kind of symptom of fake media induced mass hysteria? Just bizarre.
Idiots.
I can tie both types of knot and I’d never confuse them. I do remember once seeing that a proper hangman’s noose should have a coil with 13 turns. Never saw that verified.
Remember that woman in NYC who flipped out over supposed Nazi swastika’s chalked on the pavement? Come to find out it was electrical workers marking location of wires underground with an “S” symbol or similar.https://www.dailywire.com/news/13449/sarah-silverman-saw-swastika-sidewalk-there-was-michael-qazvini
That eyelet is not white! I see a noose and it is around a thing of color.
Call Jesse!
Call Sharpton!
Call Booker!
Call Beto!
Call Biden!
Call Harris!
And it is ORANGE! Trump signaling!
I wonder how many snowflakes expired after hearing about the “noose”?
Yours too?!?!?!?!................
What happened to Lucky9teen?.................
They can be tricky, especially in groups...............
If the rope is used in medical procedures, does practicing know tying cause it to become unsterile and unsuitable for use? Has anyone else noticed that this information is glaringly omitted from the article? (I did read it quickly - but didn’t see this mentioned.)
Oh man, wonder if it was the same noose.
And just wait until they hook up with the Lassos.
They have only one choice, outlaw fishing and fishermen. It’s the DemocRAT way.
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