Posted on 11/11/2022 3:47:31 PM PST by chuckee
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Construction of the Obama Presidential Center has been suspended after builders found a noose at the project site.
Lakeside Alliance, the company constructing the center, released a statement saying in part, "This morning we were informed that an act of hate was discovered at the project site. We reported the incident to the police and will provide any assistance required to identify those responsible."
The company said it has a zero tolerance policy for "any form of bias or hate on our worksite" and said it is suspending all operations for another series of anti-bias training and conversations for staff and workers.
A witness said police appeared to leave the construction site with a noose in a plastic bag.
"Especially at the Obama Center, Obama library, it was super shocking for sure," said Rico Pineda, works outside of Obama Center site.
Pineda said he was on another project on the outskirts of the site when he snapped photos of the initial police response.
"Just in my head I was like, man, how can somebody do something like this?" he said.
The company is also offering a $100,000 reward for information that would help find the person or persons responsible for putting the noose at the site.
Governor JB Pritzker said in a tweet that he condemns the "act of hate," adding that the state will help provide resources to catch the perpetrators.
"Hate has no place in Illinois. The noose is more than a symbol of racism, it is a heart-stopping reminder of the violence and terror inflicted on Black Americans for centuries," Pritzker also said.
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Black people are not that sensitive it’s the white women who are soooo horrified ....probably a prank by an 19 year old worker at worst
Oh good grief. I can think of lots of reasons why something that looks like a noose may be found on a construction site.
This will probably turn out like the ‘garage door pull-down’ nonsense did.
The noose was supposed to be found Monday but the fed hid it too well.
LOL
Thank you Alex. I’ll take where was Bubba for 400.
Is there some reason why they couldn’t have tossed the noose in the garbage can and then gone back to work?
This is a good thing. The army of FBI goons and DOJ stooges they send will be taken from their regular duties of watching and setting you and I up.
And this is what they're reporting on.
all wee wee’d up.
More fake news.
no white man was ever hung, hardly ever...
Hope they brought in enough counselors for everyone. And couches.
This stinks of a solicitation for sympathy donations to the building fund.
$10 says Obummer&Co did it.
no white man was ever hung, hardly ever...
My family was established in America by two Caucasian brothers who immigrated from England before the revolution. They were both hanged to death.
This country is such a f**kin' clown show.
Blacks slaughter each other by the dozen every week in Chicago yet the whole city shuts down because someone found what might've been a noose somewhere on a construction site.
and you can bet this was just construction stuff
The project has been strenuously opposed in the neighborhood. The noose is most likely from a local.
Most likely a piece of rope with a loop tied into it, for any of a hundred legitimate uses on a construction site. Apparently rope is now racist.
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