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Yet another 'noose' hoax: FBI solves NASCAR mystery

Video evidence from NASCAR shows it had been in garage since last year

WND Staff By WND Staff
Published June 23, 2020 at 2:54pm
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The NASCAR community was outraged this week by a report that a "noose" was found in the garage of Bubba Wallace, a black driver.

An investigation was launched, the FBI was called in and the perpetrator was threatened with being "eliminated from the sport."

Wallace's fellow NASCAR drivers rallied behind him.

But doubts arose immediately.

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One Twitter user posted a comment on the NASCAR announcement: "No way anyone would do that with all the security cameras and people with camera phones all around. They would be fired and canceled immediately."

Wallace, however, said he was offended that anyone would suggest there is no controversy.

"It offends me that people would go to those measures but again, I'm not shocked," he said.

But NASCAR "needs to respond to these photos suggesting the Bubba Wallace 'noose' was really just a rope used to close the garage door," challenged Twitchy, which aggregates news on Twitter.

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The photos were posted by Twitter user James E. Beatty:

"NASCAR, what say you?" Twitchy asked.

No evidence has been released.

But Fox News reported late Tuesday the FBI said that while it found a "noose" in Wallace's garage, it had been there since at least last year.

U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town said no federal crime was committed.

"The FBI learned that garage number 4, where the noose was found, was assigned to Bubba Wallace last week. The investigation also revealed evidence, including authentic video confirmed by NASCAR, that the noose found in garage number 4 was in that garage as early as October 2019," said the FBI. "Although the noose is now known to have been in garage number 4 in 2019, nobody could have known Mr. Wallace would be assigned to garage number 4 last week."

One Twitter user said: "I truly hope this is not true. We aren't this stupid as a society. Please tell me it hasn't gotten this bad. Do we have a 100% denial from NASCAR on this??"

Another wrote: "If the Bubba Wallace noose story is real, it is appalling, of course. But without a photo, I'd give it a 5% chance of being real."

Newsweek said "right-wing activists" were comparing Wallace to Jussie Smollett, the actor who apparently faked an attack on himself in Chicago.

"How much u wanna bet we never see a single security tape of the garage, while the garage contains MILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of equipment," No Mercy podcast host Tommy G wrote on Twitter. "This has Jussie Smollet [sic] written all over it. Just stop using the same playbook please. Can u switch it up? I'm not buying this. Sorry."

Washington Times columnist and FOX 5 contributor Tim Young, meanwhile, said it would be "super easy" for NASCAR to prove whether the incident was real.

He explained one needs credentials to get into the garages at the Talladega Superspeedway.

"There are cameras everywhere, he said.

CBS reported NASCAR drivers and crew members "sent a powerful message" by rallying around Wallace.

"A massive crowd pushed and followed Wallace's No. 43 car as he sat in the driver's seat during pre-race activities. Wallace, NASCAR's only full-time black driver, then exited the car and embraced Hall of Fame driver Richard Petty, who owns the team Wallace races for and had not attended a race during the coronavirus pandemic," the network reported.

See the drivers rallying:

Wallace's comments on "The View":

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