Multiple nooses were discovered hanging from tree branches at a public park in Oakland, California, the city’s mayor verified Wednesday, as Americans continue to battle with concerns of racial inequality brought into sharper focus by current civil rights protests.
Oakland police are currently examining the event as a hate criminal activity.
” Signs of racial violence have no location in Oakland and will not be endured,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a statement
” Reports that these belonged to exercise equipment do not remove nor excuse their agonizing and terrorizing results,” Schaaf included. “We are all responsible for understanding the history and present-day truth of lynchings, dislike crimes and racial violence.”
In video posted to social media, the apparent shape of a noose can be se