Noose Found At Site Of Tennessee Titans' New Stadium

Police are investigating aft a noose was recovered astatine nan building tract of nan Tennessee Titans' caller shot stadium this week, a spokesperson for nan Metro Nashville Police Department said.

The Tennessee Builders Alliance reported uncovering nan noose astatine nan tract of what is to beryllium nan caller Nissan Stadium, constabulary said. The constabulary spokesperson could not opportunity erstwhile nan study was filed, conscionable that it happened "this week."

The Tennessee Builders Alliance and nan Titans did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

In a statement, Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell said that he appreciated nan NFL squad bringing nan incident to his attraction immediately, and said his agency has taken steps "both successful section argumentation and authorities argumentation to effort to forestall dislike incidents for illustration this."

"It is very concerning," O'Connell added. "There is an unfastened investigation pinch which nan Titans are cooperating fully, and I look guardant to seeing what that investigation finds."

The caller Nissan Stadium is group to unfastened successful 2027. Construction connected nan 1.8 cardinal square-foot installation began successful February 2024.