Posted on 06/17/2020 7:37:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Oakland, Calif., is investigating nooses that were found hanging on trees as a hate crime, Mayor Libby Schaff (D) said Wednesday.
Schaff said several nooses were found on trees around Lake Merritt and were removed. She said reports that the nooses were part of exercise equipment "do not remove nor excuse their torturous and terrorizing effects.”
“We are all responsible for knowing the history and present day reality of lynchings, hate crimes and racial violence,” Schaff said in a tweeted statement. “Objects that invoke such terror will not be tolerated in Oakland’s public spaces.”
Oakland resident Porchia Freeman shared a video on Facebook Tuesday after she saw a string hanging from a tree that she identified as a noose at Lake Merritt.
“I posted it because it was very disturbing to me and I thought I would bring awareness to the situation,” Freeman said in a video posted to Facebook on Wednesday.
She said she saw a string swinging as she was walking by the lake.
“Apparently the guy who put the rope up there, he said it was for a swing,” Freeman said. “Mind you, I've never seen a swing set that resembles a noose. It looks like a noose, swings like a noose. I thought it was a noose.”
"One community member claimed ownership of the ropes and stated that he intentionally placed the ropes on the tree limbs for exercise and games several months ago," police reportedly said in a release.
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Another hoax?
When there aren’t enough real “hate” crimes...you got to make them up.
Not with Dems
Don’t crimes require laws?
Not with Dems
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I want then to investage these random shoes slung over electrical wires. What is that a signal for aliens or something?
hmmmmmm
Somehow, I don’t perceive Oakland, California as home to many white supremacists. Most of these “hate” incidents are plants.
Staged. Trump got less than 5% of the vote in Oakland. Anyone Republican who attempted this would have been caught by a DEM and hung by his own rope.
Fake noose.
Any pictures of these nooses?
only if they’re Air Jordans
Blue states certainly seem to be hotbeds of racism.
I used to live two blocks from Lake Merritt, and my daily exercise run was around the lake. I believe the exercise story, I have seen people working out under the trees there.
It’s the same area where Becky called the cops on the barbequers.
“Another hoax?”
Exactly what I was thinking.
Look for some black university professors.
There is a link to fb video in the article.
Lake Merrit is a stop on the BART system.
“Been there, done that,” but don’t need to go there ever again.
The “Nooses,” found in trees, but no bodies in them?
What a shame.
Sticks and stones will break my bones
But nooses in the trees excite me!
This is California, folks, land of the lame, the fruit and nuts, run be the Browns, Pelosi’s, Newsomes, and the Communist party of America. What did you expect??
START USING THOSE NOOSES!
When they find the noose makers they should be charged with a hate crime...even if it’s a black person
Where is Jussie Smollett? does he have an alibi?
I’ve been to some local rocks, and poked around a little.
I notice devices installed to help climbers and for safety backup.
OH NO, they were little nooses.
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