{"id":191866,"date":"2019-07-20T06:05:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T06:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191866"},"modified":"2019-07-24T05:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T05:03:30","slug":"university-hospital-investigates-hate-crime-after-noose-found-it-turns-out-it-wasnt-a-noose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191866","title":{"rendered":"Uni Hospital Investigates \u2018Hate Crime\u2019 After \u2018Noose\u2019 Found. It Turns Out It Wasn\u2019t A Noose."},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Destination Now \u2013 July 19, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Uni knot. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

In late June, the University of Michigan announced it would investigate an incident of a \u201cnoose\u201d found at a shared employee table at the university hospital. The investigation has since concluded that the \u201cnoose\u201d wasn\u2019t actually a noose but a \u201cUni Knot,\u201d used for fishing. Someone had been practicing and merely left the rope on the table before chaos ensued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite every \u201chate crime\u201d claim in recent memory turning out to be some kind of hoax, university police jumped into action and school officials denounced racism. Dr. Marschall S. Runge, the dean of UM\u2019s Medical School, announced that the school had \u201ctaken immediate action\u201d to investigate the so-called noose.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis act of hate violates all of the values that we hold dear and will not be tolerated,\u201d Runge said in a statement\u00a0 obtained<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0by Fox 6 News. She added that the noose was a \u201csymbol of hate and discrimination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fox also reported the incident would be investigated \u201cas an act of discrimination and criminal ethnic intimidation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

University police spokeswoman Heather Young told the outlet that the school would be able to use surveillance cameras to determine what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have thousands of cameras all over the University of Michigan, and we are looking at all sources of information,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also said that since the workspace was shared by multiple employees, it was “difficult to answer” questions about the ethnicity or race of those who worked there.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI was even alerted, Fox reported. Special agent Timothy R. Slater, who leads the bureau\u2019s Detroit office, said that if \u201cinformation comes to light of a potential federal civil rights violation, the FBI is prepared to investigate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That was June 20. Nearly a month later, the University of Michigan\u2019s Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS)\u00a0concluded<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0the \u201cnoose\u201d was not a noose at all, but actually a practice knot.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBased on multiple witness interviews and other evidence, DPSS does not believe that the incident involving the rope was a hate crime. If relevant new information comes forward, the case will be reopened,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cspool of rope\u201d was concluded to have been used by someone who was on break and practicing a \u201cUni Knot,\u201d which is used for fishing. This person returned the rope to a storage area with the knot still in tied and was discovered the next day by another employee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though this incident turned out not to be a hate crime, DPSS still felt it necessary to insist hate crimes are \u201ctaken very seriously.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe all share the responsibility of creating a safe and secure environment free from violent or threatening behavior,\u201d said DPSS Executive Director Eddie L. Washington, Jr. \u201cAny crime designed to infringe upon these rights will be taken very seriously by the university and DPSS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

DPSS could have used the moment to try and calm people down from assuming everything is a hate crime, but that would have caused a backlash in today\u2019s society.<\/span><\/p>\n

DPSS also included information for those wishing to report \u201cbias incidents,\u201d described by the department as \u201cnon-criminal speech or behaviors that are motivated by a bias against a victim\u2019s race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender or disability.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone had left it after practising fishing knots. However, in our PC obsessed culture it was seen as evidence of a “hate crime”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191866"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191885,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191866\/revisions\/191885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}