Several nooses were found Wednesday hanging from trees at Lake Merritt in Oakland.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said the findings are being investigated as a hate crime.
Although there were reports that the nooses were part of exercise equipment. But the Mayor says that does not "excuse their tortuous and terrorizing effects," and added that "objects that invoke such terror will not be tolerated in Oakland's public spaces."
On June 10, a 24-year-old black man was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale. The findings were initially described as suicide, but now authorities are looking into the case.
Robert L. Fuller's body was discovered by a passerby who saw him hanging from a tree at Poncitlán Square on June 10, in between Palmdale City Hall and a Los Angeles County Fire Department station.
Protests over the death of George Floyd, police brutality and defunding the LAPD are ongoing.
