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“Noose” Found At U. Michigan Hospital Turns Out Not To Be A Noose
Legal Insurection Blog ^ | July 18, 2019 | Mike LaChance

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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: annarbor; fakehatenews; fakenewsnoose; fakenoose; hoaxtroversy; marschallrunge; michigan; uofmichigan
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

LOLOL...guess they were practicing for the day they catch old “pencil neck.”


41 posted on 07/19/2019 8:27:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: chris37

“Everywhere I go, there’s nothing but nooses.

I can’t even drive my car, because the street is literally full of nooses. I need a damn noose boat just to get around.”

They’re a damn noosance.


42 posted on 07/19/2019 8:28:14 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Noosetradamus predicted this was a hoax.


43 posted on 07/19/2019 8:29:18 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: JonPreston

Just like “racists” are hiding behind every rock, tree, and blade of grass.


44 posted on 07/19/2019 8:29:38 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CrazyIvan

It’s a conspiracy. I blame La Cosa Noosetra


45 posted on 07/19/2019 8:29:50 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

46 posted on 07/19/2019 8:31:29 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Be sure to read "The Left’s Demonization of Conservatives Becomes Dangerous," by Jeffrey T. Brown, July 18, 2019, American Thinker.
There exists in this country a cultivated mindset that conservatives are all things evil. We have gradually devolved into fictional characters, invented by the left, and animated by whatever awful thoughts, beliefs, and imaginary actions the anti-American hate cult can conjure up, mostly on the basis that we still have faith, or love our country, or believe in true justice rather than socialist justice.

It’s been going on for a long time. I was a Reagan supporter as a teenager and college student, so I’ve been hearing for almost my entire life what a rotten person I obviously am. Of course, I am none of the things that are pinned on me, but it doesn’t matter. I am who they say I am, and they believe it to their cores.

It is a fascinating process, watching yourself being defined by people who actively practice what they pretend to condemn. The awful things that they project upon us don’t spring from our minds, but from theirs. Those terrible thoughts and dark motives are bred in their own warped psyches. When they spring forth, we are assured that these are what drive others but not themselves.

Their bigotry is limitless, their hatred palpable. Their distrust and loathing is out of all proportion to anything they’ve actually ever seen. We do live among them, of course. We interact with them every day. We remnants of America are polite, rational and logical. Except when we upset the cult. Then we become fictional creatures entirely.

Mr. Brown posits we are roughly 1932 Germany when the Jews began being demonized for everything. Daily lies of "RACIST" and fake nooses are all part of the same strategy to wipe out traditional America.
47 posted on 07/19/2019 8:35:29 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CrazyIvan

HAH!


48 posted on 07/19/2019 8:42:14 AM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The left’s going to have organize a new ‘charlottesville’ to keep their hate alone...


49 posted on 07/19/2019 8:58:07 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks for the link.


50 posted on 07/19/2019 9:51:23 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Red Badger

I would be worried about all the scalpels and needles at the hospital.


51 posted on 07/19/2019 10:09:13 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Tying fishing line is now a hate crime?? I-kid-you Knot…


52 posted on 07/19/2019 10:40:01 AM PDT by mikrofon (Midsummer BUMP)
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To: NewHampshireDuo
"I do remember once seeing that a proper hangman’s noose should have a coil with 13 turns."

The proper number of turns on a hangman's noose is the number that is aesthetically pleasing, but is at least 4.

It's now official.

53 posted on 07/19/2019 10:59:02 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Gee, I hope no one peed their pants or smeared their makeup with tears.


54 posted on 07/19/2019 11:04:00 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Good God. This hate-crime nonsense has to stop.

Seriously, wasting time and resources looking into a rope? A word? A gesture? How about actual ACTIONS violating someone’s RIGHTS?

We are absolutely insane.


55 posted on 07/19/2019 11:46:59 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Those are apparently a common sight among fishing enthusiasts

But everybody knows that "fishing enthusiast" means white just like "aspiring rapper" means black, and whites tie those complicated knots to signal each other what they WANT to do with blacks.

FIND THE RACIST! PUNCH A NAZI!

56 posted on 07/19/2019 1:13:16 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: chris37

The world needs mo lassos.


57 posted on 07/19/2019 4:20:59 PM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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