FBI announces noose was not placed purposely in the Bubba Wallace stall

The FBI announced Tuesday that a noose-like rope discovered in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall of Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s only Black driver, was a pull-down rope and had been there at least since last October. It was determined that nobody could have known Wallace would have been assigned to that stall. They concluded it wasn’t a hate crime. NASCAR said it was the only garage stall with a rope tied to resemble a noose, and even though no charges are being filed, President Steve Phelps said NASCAR is investigating why the rope was tied that way, while saying he was pleased it wasn’t a hate crime directed at Wallace.