After the FBI concluded that a noose discovered over the weekend in his garage was not a hate crime, Bubba Wallace sat down with CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday to talk about the slew of hateful messages he received online, saying he was using the moment as an opportunist and accusing him of being the NASCAR’s Jussie Smollett.
In a report released on Tuesday, the FBI concluded that a rope found in Wallace’s garage was a “garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose,” and was present in the location since last year.
Since the news broke, white supremacists have taken to Twitter to berate Wallace, even though he was not the person who observed the noose or reported it.
But Wallace said he doesn’t hold any of that in regard regard, because no matter how it was fashioned, at the end of the day, the rope was tied into a noose, which has many dangerous implications for a lone Black man in a primarily white sport.
“From the evidence that we have, that I have–it’s a straight up noose,” Wallace continued.
