Reportedly, it was just a mistake and the noose found in Wallace's garage was left there before the garage was assigned him and was only a garage door pull-down rope, according to the FBI.
And Wallace seemingly accepted that explanation and moved on with his life.
The Great Fat Orange Klansman tweeted it was all a fake, not an honest mistake.
I have never seen a picture of that noose.
For a garage door you'd expect a length of rope with a balled up knot made of multiple simple knots at the bottom for a person to grab to pull the door down.
Or maybe this sort of knot.
For a hanging you'd expect a quite distinctive type of noose that has only that use, so far as I am aware.
A quick search found this.
The Guardian
“As you can see from the photo, the noose was real, as was our concern for Bubba,” Nascar president Steve Phelps said.
“Based on the evidence we had, we thought our drivers – that one of our drivers had been threatened, a driver who had been extremely courageous in recent words and actions. It’s our responsibility to react and investigate, and that’s exactly what we did.”
Nascar asked officials at every track to check their garages this week.
The story is dated June 25.
Nascar said out of 1,684 garage stalls at 29 tracks, only 11 had a garage door pull-down rope tied in a knot.
The only one fashioned in a noose was the one discovered Sunday by a crew member in Wallace’s No. 43 garage stall.
. . . .
Nascar moved quickly and by Monday, FBI agents were at the track.
On Tuesday, authorities said the rope had been hanging there since last fall and thus was not a hate crime targeting the 26-year-old Wallace.
US attorney Jay Town and FBI special agent in charge Johnnie Sharp Jr said “nobody could have known Mr. Wallace would be assigned” to that same stall.
Wallace never saw the rope.
He said Phelps came to see him Sunday night at the track with “tears running down his face.”
He also told CNN: “ It was a noose. Whether it was tied in 2019 ... it is a noose.”
It could be a Uni-knot.
That would actually make sense.
The Uni-knot doesn't slip so it would work for a door pull.
But the hangman's noose slips. It has to, given its job. And that would not work well for a door pull.
Did anyone check?
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