442. City report debunks ‘noose’ allegation at Oakland corporation yard / A reported “noose” tied to the back of a city truck in August, which stirred already simmering racial tensions at Oakland’s Corporation Yard, was not an intended act of racial harassment, a city-commis / 2014-12-12
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Type of hoax:
charged with inventing crime
2014-12-12
Oakland
California
A reported “noose” tied to the back of a city truck in August, which stirred already simmering racial tensions at Oakland’s Corporation Yard, was not an intended act of racial harassment, a city-commissioned report has found.
The 25-page report by the law firm Hanson Bridgett immediately came under attack by SEIU Local 1021, the union that represents the two workers who spotted the rope tied to a bar on the back of a city-issued pickup truck and filed a complaint.
According to the report, a union representative changed the rope’s position on the crossbar so that it looked much more like a hangman’s noose shortly before reporters arrived to snap photos. Originally the knot of the rope was not dangling from the crossbar, the investigation found, but was looped against the crossbar.
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