Feds: Noose Found In Bubba Wallace's Garage Had Been There Since At Least October

[edhopper]

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/feds-noose-found-in-bubba-wallaces-garage-had-been-there-since-at-least-october

This is actually a good thing.
One was that it was an honest mistake and not an act of racism.
And two that the reaction was to come together against racism.

And since people want to comment without reading the article:

The statement said the garage stall was assigned to Wallace last week in advance of the race scheduled for Sunday but held on Monday because of rain. Through video confirmed by NASCAR it was discovered the noose had been “was in that garage as early as October 2019.”

[Tipperary]

1. Interesting. nt

[empedocles]

2. No DNA ?

[tman]

3. 2020 must be the craziest fucking year on record.

[drray23]

4. An honest mistake ?

Like, oh darn I misplaced my noose a few months ago, my bad.
When is it appropriate to place a noose in a black person house or garage? Answer: never.

[edhopper]

7. Read the article

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a door pull that has been there for a year. Before it was Wallace's garage.

[Nevilledog]

22. His name is Bubba Wallace.

[edhopper]

26. My bad

Bubba Watson is a golfer.

Do you see the mistake you made?

[demtenjeep]

5. not sure I buy that

why bring a noose anyway? Who just carries them around?

[LanternWaste]

6. Who just carries rope around?

So many people do... and most knots, nooses included, can be tied in under three minutes.

[edhopper]

9. read the article

[edhopper]

8. It was a door pull

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tied in a way that looks like a noose. Last year, before Wallace was there.

[demmiblue]

34. Nope:

[edhopper]

36. That is definately a noose.

[rockfordfile]

38. I agree

[Baclava]

10. Its a rope with a loop used to open garage bay doors! They all have them! Somebody panicked, idiots

[DrToast]

14. They really should have looked into it first

[brush]

24. They all have them tied in a complicated hanging noose? Seriously?

[Amishman]

31. Or at least something close to it

Was skeptical about this as well so I went off to google image search.

This is at Daytona, a different track. Look in the upper left, you can see two noose like loops hanging on the two nearest doors

This really does seem to have been a bizarre case of accidental noose-like object sighting.

https://www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com/~/media/74FF896E5A414728A262C9F423817763.ashx

[Evergreen Emerald]

11. The police are accusing people of poisoning their food, and now this.

We are all very stressed. Crazy times.

[BKDem]

12. So...people opened and closed this garage door for months and nobody noticed it?

Could we see a picture please?

Pardon my skepticism, but we're in the middle of a fascist takeover of our democracy.

[Sapient Donkey]

13. Here's a picture I see being passed around

The claim is the 2020 one is after they cut it to be taken as evidence.

[underpants]

18. Another pic that's going around.

[Sapient Donkey]

19. Ahh, hadn't seen that one yet.

That looks even less like a noose. Apparently it wasn't even the driver 'Bubba' who found it, aye?

[brush]

15. Not buying it. Must've been someone high up who got caught on the security camera.

One doesn't need to create a door pull in such a complicated knot as a noose.

Again, not buying it.

[edhopper]

16. There is photo evidence.

from 2019

[brush]

17. Where?

[Sapient Donkey]

20. A few posts above you'll see some pictures of it

[Nevilledog]

23. I'm with you.

No way entire NASCAR community freaked out over the rope pictured.

[GulfCoast66]

25. Does not look like a noose knot to me.

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And that would not be the knot to tie on a door pull.

Looks like someone who works there knows how to tie a bowline. Which is a knot everyone should know and it the perfect knot for a door pull.

Some times a knot is just a knot.

On edit: I’ve now seen a better photo of the rope. Or a different one. Doesn’t matter.

Definitely a hangman’s noose.

[edhopper]

28. I thought

bowline as well.

[demmiblue]

33. Looks like a noose to me:

[GulfCoast66]

39. Thanks. I saw that earlier today. Edited my post.

The one I saw was a bad photo or a different rope. But this is definitely a Hangman’s noose.

I’m a southern man. There is only one reason that was tied. Racism. Flat out.

[backscatter712]

40. That's a noose.

Maybe it was tied as some sort of sick joke a year ago, before Bubba got there.

But if it's a joke, it's not funny. And Bubba had no way of knowing whether that was put there a year ago or five minutes ago, so he did the right thing and reported it.

[USALiberal]

27. Do more reading! Nt

[Sunsky]

29. Not buying it either

Why was there a fake noose in the garage in the first place (maybe not relevant but troubling to me)? Why was it left there? How are these garages assigned? Was it Bubba's first time in the garage?
I find it very strange this happened after he spoke out for racial equity and got NASCAR to ban the confederate flag which led to a defiant confederate flag flyover.
So many unanswered questions. I guess we should take Barr's DOJ and NASCAR's word for it. Case closed.

[lastlib]

30. This isn't the standard "Hangman's" noose, with all the wraps.

From what I can see, it looks more like a barrel knot--which is a reasonable choice for a door pull. It can be tied so as not to slip, and makes a loop you can easily get your hand into to pull it like a lanyard. Not necessarily anything nefarious.

[brush]

32. Guess it's possible there was a mis-naming of the knot. The word "noose" is...

always associated with hangings. Still makes one wonder though that this happened right after Nascar banned the confederate flag. The knot being suddenly something other than a noose sure let's them off the hook.

[demmiblue]

35. Yes it is:

[lastlib]

37. okay--hadn't seen this picture before.

[ecstatic]

21. Unfortunately, Barr's FBI has

little credibility when it comes to investigating hate crimes.