Oakland Mayor who held a press conference in 2020 about ropes in a park that were assumed to be hate crime nooses but were later confirmed to be climbing ropes.
"We must start with the assumption that it was a hate crime...what a privilege for those of us who don't feel complete fear and terror when we see a rope in a tree…that is a privilege that so many of our African American residents don't enjoy...the intentions of how those ropes got into the tree do n"