US Attorney, FBI, DOJ ‘Reviewing’ Noose In NASCAR Garage

A U.S. attorney, the FBI and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice are “reviewing the situation” after a noose was found in the garage of a Black NASCAR driver.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1316264

Yeah, this’ll be a very exhaustive investigation…

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A U.S. attorney, the FBI and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice are “reviewing the situation” after a noose was found in the garage of a Black NASCAR driver. In a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Northern District of Alabama, officials said investigators would look for any “violations of federal law.”

Violations committed by the driver, I assume.

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I’m having a hard time believing any NASCAR garage would not have video surveillance. There are millions of dollars in engines, parts, etc. in these garages not to mention concern about spying /espionage by other teams.

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Probably ‘reviewing’ which DOJ employee hung the noose and quickly promoting them…asshats.

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They would be exhausted when they finish, looking in NASCAR for guys racist enough to hang a noose, is like looking in a pack of hyenas for one gross enough to eat carrion…

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Hopefully they’ll accelerate it and don’t waste time spinning their wheels.

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Nah, they’ll just drive around in endless circles, only to get back to the same point.

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What do you expect. NASCAR banned one symbol of Southern (racist) Heritage, so some move on to symbols that meant the same to them.

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Yup. And should be pretty secure, this shouldn’t be very hard or take too long to do.

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Yeah, I don’t want to see that they just went round and round…

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We might be surprised…

NASCAR really took a turn to the left with banning the Confederate flag…

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The question, of course, is whether NASCAR will out the person on the video. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the video system “wasn’t working properly” or didn’t cover that part of the garage…

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I’m sure the man in the oval office will get right on it.

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Pence: All race car driver feelings matter.

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Someone should put the brakes on that.

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Bubba’s garage had video surveillance but it showed so many overweight guys in hoods arguing that the FBI’s real chore will be determining which one of them put the noose there.

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They need the time to get the spin out there before the whole scheme crashes and burns.

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That was the Pits. Stop.

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We are just picking up the pace…

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