'Nooses’ reported at Oakland’s Lake Merritt determined to be ropes used for exercise

KTLA NEWS ^ | June 17, 2020 | AP

[L.A.Justice]

Oakland’s mayor said five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and racially-charged symbols of terror but a resident said they are merely exercise equipment that he put up there months ago.

Mayor Libby Schaaf said Wedesday that a hate crime investigation was under way after a social media post identified a noose at the city’s popular Lake Merritt. Police said they searched the area on Tuesday and found five ropes attached to trees.

The Police Department provided five photographs of trees, some of which showed knotted ropes and one that appeared to have a piece of plastic pipe attached to a rope, hanging from tree limbs.

They have been removed by city officials.

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.

“Out of the dozen and hundreds and thousands of people that walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose. Folks have used it for exercise. It was really a fun addition to the park that we tried to create,” Sengbe said.

[L.A.Justice]

“Intentions don’t matter when it comes to terrorizing the public,” Schaaf said. “It is incumbent on all of us to know the actual history of racial violence, of terrorism, that a noose represents and that we as a city must remove these terrorizing symbols from the public view.”

“The symbolism of the rope hanging in the tree is malicious regardless of intent. It’s evil, and it symbolizes hatred,” Williams said.

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These public officials are trying to make black people angry for no good reason...That is not responsible...

A black guy put the rope on the tree...Not some racist white person...

[Salvavida]

At least we know what button to push now.

[Jeff Chandler]

I thought it said Mooses.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Oakland’s mayor said five ropes found hanging from trees in a city park are nooses and racially-charged symbols of terror but a resident said they are merely exercise equipment that he put up there months ago.

“Intentions don’t matter when it comes to terrorizing the public,” Schaaf said.

The village idiot is the mayor.

[snarkytart]

under way after a social media post identified a noose at the city’s popular Lake Merritt./
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Twitter and Fakebook runs our society, excuse me, the LEFTISTS on those platforms run our society.
It would be like officials and companies bowing to the comment section of Huffington Post or Salon.com.

[cgbg]

Tiny white pieces of paper and/or index cards are equally terrorizing for the snowflakes and the idiot politicians.

[jonascord]

In the last month, what does reality have to do with Democrats or Democrat run hell holes?

[bagster]

C'mon, people. Its the twenty-first century. Instead of hanging ropes from trees, hang job applications.

That'll really trigger the bastards.

[rfp1234]

Shouldn’t the plural of noose be “noose”...or “neese”?

[Mark17]

These public officials are trying to make black people angry for no good reason...That is not responsible...

Has anyone ever accused any of these ass hats 🧢 of doing anything “responsible?” I thought PC would become less and less with Trump. It’s gotten infinitely worse

[Paladin2]

It’s an Idiocracy.

CNN should have to show that movie a couple of times everyday.

[Pollster1]

I wonder whether these snowflakes will choose to feel terrorized watching Olympic gymnastics the next time that happens. Intentions don't mater if athletic equipment looks scary to the professional victims who work hard at being misinformed.

[newzjunkey]

If I had a thousand face palms... That mayor has no business in public office.

[dp0622]

They’ve lost their minds.

meanwhile, I walked into several hundred blacks and whites yelling something about floyd and no justice no peace and after they passed i walked another black and 5 hispanic guys asked me why i wasn’t marching with blm

i said i have my own problems.

Wasn’t a good time to say something very inflammatory

the tension is incredible and this whole thing is gonna explode more and more.

but i’m too stubborn at 52 to avoid some place I want or need to go because of these people.

#### em

[American Infidel]

Schaaf said officials must “start with the assumption that these are hate crimes.” However, the mayor and Nicholas Williams, the city’s director of parks recreation, also said it didn’t matter whether the ropes were meant to send a racist message.

“Intentions don’t matter when it comes to terrorizing the public,” Schaaf said. “It is incumbent on all of us to know the actual history of racial violence, of terrorism, that a noose represents and that we as a city must remove these terrorizing symbols from the public view.”

“The symbolism of the rope hanging in the tree is malicious regardless of intent. It’s evil, and it symbolizes hatred,” Williams said.

I would have thought this was a satire piece from the Babylon Bee if I didn't know the source. This is beyond insanity at this point, with the mayor putting her virtue signaling on hyperdrive.

A black guy puts up some exercise equipment made of a rope, and all that matters is the "symbolism" regardless of intent. What's next? No cotton shirts?

Does crossfit have to ban all exercises using ropes?

Does the military have to eliminate the rope climb from the obstacle course?

Is the white mayor facing a primary challenge in the election from a black candidate, so she feels the need to overcompensate with the virtue-signaling?

At this point; even black people (like the man who put up these ropes) have be getting tired of being told by white leftist elites how they are "supposed" to feel based on symbolism regardless of intent.

[Ymani Cricket]

intentional inciting

[Eagles6]

When you have the IQ of a nail everything looks likea hammer.

[alexander_busek]

I hereby demand that the lower-case letter "B" be stricken from the alphabet!

"b" looks too much like a noose!

Regards,

[dp0622]

Yeah two of the spanish guys I could tell were hoping i would say anything that they could take the wrong way.

i will admit it was a mighty lonely feeling for that minute :}

but i don’t walk around without anything and would have taken a few with me

[jmcenanly]

They do. However, it is usually a panel show.