{"id":538403,"date":"2021-05-24T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538403"},"modified":"2021-05-24T12:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:36:04","slug":"professor-reports-seeing-noose-behind-house-it-was-part-of-a-swing-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-reports-seeing-noose-behind-house-it-was-part-of-a-swing-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Reports Seeing \u2018Noose\u2019 Behind House. It Was Part Of A Swing Set."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprofessor-reports-seeing-noose-behind-house-it-was-part-of-a-swing-set%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538403&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-985065090-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this month, two black Penn State University professors reported seeing a \u201cnoose\u201d in a tree behind their house.<br \/>They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegian.psu.edu\/news\/campus\/patton-police-no-longer-investigating-possible-hate-incident-toward-2-black-penn-state-faculty-members\/article_ecedd720-a77a-11eb-8a11-379c626b993c.html\">told<\/a> PSU student newspaper the Daily Collegian that the incident was \u201cdeeply distressing to them and their family.\u201d Local media outlet the Centre Daily Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/news\/local\/education\/penn-state\/article250981469.html\">reported<\/a> that the professors believed the alleged noose was \u201cdeliberately placed [on the tree] to harass them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The College Fix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/black-penn-state-profs-report-noose-behind-house-ends-up-being-part-of-neighbors-swing-set\/\">reported<\/a> that the Patton Township Police Department found the noose and began investigating. Before that investigation was complete, however, PSU President Eric Barron posted a statement condemning the alleged act of hate and accepting the professor\u2019s feelings as truth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he incident underscores the importance of our anti-racism work as a University, and as a community of scholars,\u201d Barron wrote. \u201cIt also underscores the importance of our town-gown work to build a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for all who live here. Groups like&nbsp;Community &amp; Campus in Unity that have formed the Centre Region Anti-bias Coalition are critical to helping create a climate of acceptance and support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When police spoke to the professors\u2019 neighbor, they learned the truth. It was not a \u201cnoose\u201d intended to frighten and intimidate two black residents; it was part of a swing set that had been simply discarded into the woods. The neighbor\u2019s child told police he had simply thrown the length of rope \u201cinto the woods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from the Fix:<\/p>\n<p><em>Patton Police Chief Tyler Jolley concluded there was \u201cno malice\u201d involved. The department added \u201cno kind of crime [was] committed at all\u201d and that the rope just \u201chappened\u201d to fall on the tree.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nevertheless, in a Wednesday press release, police asked anyone who may have witnessed the incident or \u201cany suspicious activity\u201d in the timeframe in question to contact them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is simply the latest report of a noose turning out to have non-racist origins. The most famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-nascar-releases-photo-of-noose-they-claimed-they-found-in-bubba-wallaces-garage-stall\">recent example<\/a> involved NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, whose team claimed to find a noose hanging in their garage stall at the Talladega Superspeedway. The \u201cnoose\u201d turned out to be a garage pull that had been hanging for more than a year and was similar to garage pulls in numerous other stalls.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire has also reported on numerous other incidents where a noose turned out to be no such thing. In June 2020, a noose was found in a Harlem park. The New York Police Department investigated the incident and determined it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-noose-was-found-in-a-harlem-park-nypd-hate-crimes-unit-investigates-discovers-innocent-origins\">was just some rope<\/a> left over from construction scaffolding and had been hanging in the park unnoticed for six months. Of course, the determination came after protests and numerous officials, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) chimed in on the alleged hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2019, the University of Michigan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/university-hospital-investigates-hate-crime-after-ashe-schow\">investigated<\/a> a \u201cnoose\u201d that had been found at a shared employee table at the university hospital. That investigation 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, two black Penn State University professors reported seeing a \u201cnoose\u201d in a tree behind their house.They told PSU student newspaper the Daily Collegian that the incident was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312814,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-985065090-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Professor Reports Seeing \u2018Noose\u2019 Behind House. 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