RetiredGySgt
Diamond Member
Your statement is misleading. This isn't a case of having a rope in the back of a truck. It's a case of displaying hangman's nooses from the back of a truck in an already racially-inflamed environment.
Now I could be wrong, but I had always heard it was illegal to possess a hangman's noose.
Depends on individual State laws and I also think in some States it has to be a certain specific knot. BUT the INTENT was clear. It can be illegal to intimidate, threaten force ( which one can construe from a hangmans noose on the back of a pickup) or attempt to cause fear.