NASCAR Releases Photo of Noose Found in Bubba Wallace's Garage and Twitter Explodes

NASCAR found only 11 total that had a pull-down rope tied in a knot and only one noose

(across the 1,684 garage stalls at 29 tracks) https://t.co/F8nd6nOzpg

Uh, this a noose. Can we stop trying to sugar coat bs:

It’s not racially charged, it’s racism.

It’s not racial anxiety, it’s racism!

And this sure is hell is not a ‘garage pull fashioned as a noose’ it’s a damn noose! https://t.co/9nrPcQVroZ

NASCAR released the picture of the noose. 1,684 garage door ropes across all of the sport... ZERO were tied as a noose and only 11 were tied in a loop at all.

“As you can see from the photo, the noose was real, as was our concern for Bubba.”

Steve Phelps - NASCAR President https://t.co/Fi4zgXLREC pic.twitter.com/YbMqlck1Jh

This is false. There are hundreds. First, it was a knot not a "noose". A noose is not a knot. There are many knots that look like a noose (loop knot, scaffold knot, Bimini twist knot etc). A noose wouldn't work as a garage pull. It was a knot. [Example pic from other garage] https://t.co/VkNBozgvHK pic.twitter.com/xjMRqV0ZHE

Declaring “the noose was real,” NASCAR officials have released a photo of the rope found in the speedway garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace that prompted a federal investigation into whether he had been the target of a hate crime. https://t.co/avvIUqe1VD

That’s a noose without a doubt so....

Another photojournalism teachable moment - perspective

Look at the photo NASCAR released

And then the actual size of the garage pull pic.twitter.com/W0cwem4j0P

Looks like a noose to me. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/qVgLlax1NV

On #DrinkswithBinks @JoyTaylorTalks discusses those that are smug over the news that the noose wasn't directed at @BubbaWallace: "Whether these people are fringe or not, they’re still humans out there believing that, and it’s going to be even harder to bring them out of the mud." pic.twitter.com/jR9PeuFpYo

In the biz we call "rope fashioned into a noose" a "noose". https://t.co/xvtrWl73y9

That is NOT a garage door pull. Friggin' FBI...

@gtconway3d NASCAR check over 1,600 garage doors at their facilities, and only found 1 DOOR with a NOOSE for a door pull...it just "happened" to be on the one garage door that the only black driver was assigned! Thank you NASCAR for standing up to RACISM!! https://t.co/rqL7zn9m2j

The FBI said this was NOT a Noose.. so we trusting the FBI pic.twitter.com/UsU7L3RcTg

So this isn’t a noose 🤔 pic.twitter.com/13xRqNsrwJ

Looking at the official picture from NASCAR and, yeah it's clearly a noose. https://t.co/II5fkTHh8e

This is a noose. Maybe not specific made for Bubba Wallace, but the symbolism remains the same.
Looks like the FBI is trying to bleach this away.

NASCAR releases photo of noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage stall https://t.co/VE567ljyYc via @houstonchron

IT WAS DAMN NOOSE! STOP IT CANDACE! pic.twitter.com/Z0F4uOEmHf

This doesn't look anything like that noose in the picture lol pic.twitter.com/969YPKCmgI

Yea that’s a noose. I want to know what they looked like in other garages #nascar #IStandWithBubba pic.twitter.com/CUSyYjM5JC

Here is my opinion on Bubba Wallace.

1. Bubba Wallace didn't report the noose, so it wasn't a "hoax." This is not Bubba looking for publicity.

2. Someone tied a noose in 2019 and it's not a normal thing to do to a door pull.

3. Nascar handled this much better than the NFL.

You know how you can tell when someone is racist? When they spend their time on Twitter trying to prove to others that a noose isn’t a noose. Miserable stupid people.