NEWS: The FBI has just released a statement about the NASCAR noose incident at Talladega, indicating it was a misunderstanding. No crime was committed. The noose was already there as early as last year.

The Wood Brothers Racing team, which used that garage stall last year, had an employee who recalled seeing the rope tied like a noose. https://twitter.com/woodbrothers21/status/1275538462859460608

NASCAR releases a statement on the situation:

Apologies for not knowing who originally created this image, but it has been making the rounds on Twitter and turned out to be correct. You can see in the left photo the rope was in noose form — apparently as a handle — last year and then cut for evidence Sunday.