ATLANTA - A video showing what appears to be a noose hanging from a tree outside Atlanta’s first Black history museum has gone viral, prompting outrage and a police investigation.

Local perspective:

The rope was discovered Wednesday in a tree outside the APEX Museum on Auburn Avenue, across from Georgia State University. Museum President and CEO Dan Moore Jr. said he recorded the video that has since spread widely online.

"The APEX Museum is Atlanta’s first and original black history museum," Moore said. "Saw a rope up in the tree. In closer perspective, it was a small circle around the rope because it was tied up, almost noose like."

Moore said the rope’s appearance felt like more than a coincidence. "I felt like it was a problem because of this time that we’re living in," he said.

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