https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/06/19/oakland-mayor-doesnt-matter-nooses-found-public-park-turned-hand-swings/Oakland Mayor: It Doesn’t Matter If The “Nooses†Found In Our Public Park Turned Out To Be Hand SwingsIt started a few days ago with a report of nooses found hanging from a tree in a park in Oakland. The city was stunned. Had some white supremacist chosen to lash out amid the protests over George Floyd’s killing by displaying a notorious symbol of lynchings? The matter had to be investigated.
It didn’t take long to get to the bottom of it:
According to Oakland police, officers discovered five ropes Tuesday afternoon attached to trees at Lake Merritt…
Victor Sengbe told ABC7 News the rope is part of a rigging used by him and his friends as part of a larger swing system…
“Out of the hundreds, thousands of people who walked by, no one even thought it looked anywhere close to a noose,†said Sengbe. “Folks have used it for exercise, it was really a fun addition to the park that we tried to create.â€
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But Oakland’s mayor didn’t do that. She’s a Democrat running a reliably Democratic city in a reliably Democratic state. Instead of putting her constituents at ease, this was her moment to throw fuel on those embers and peacock about how down with the struggle she is. And so she declared that, Sengbe’s information notwithstanding, the incident would continue to be investigated as a hate crime. A chilling line in the clip below: “The intentions do not matter because the harm is real.†...
The guy who set up the rope swings is black. Most do not even slightly resemble nooses, but the one that does, slightly, still could not be a slip-knot (who would swing using a loop that would tighten and injure one's hand?!). So it's another case of
Fake-But-True!
