On Wednesday morning, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tweeted that several nooses were found hanging on trees around Lake Merritt. They have been taken down and will be investigated as a hate crimes. Mayor Schaaf said in a statement,
Reports that these were part of exercise equipment do not remove nor excuse their torturous and terrorizing effects...Objects that invoke such terror will not be tolerated in Oakland's public spaces.
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