Amid a nationwide reckoning over race in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a disturbing number of reports have cropped up featuring an icon of violent oppression from the days of Jim Crow.
Amid a nationwide reckoning over race in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a disturbing number of reports have cropped up featuring an icon of violent oppression from the days of Jim Crow: the noose. In addition to the widely publicized case of a noose discovered in the garage stall of NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace on Sunday, nooses have been found in public places in California, New York and Maine within the last week, and over the previous month, six black people have been found hanging from trees, with their deaths ruled suicides.
After originally saying there was no sign of foul play in either of the two hanging deaths in California (which were separated by just 50 miles and occurred 10 days apart), the local authorities, “responding to pleas from community activists, promised full investigations into the deaths of both men.
