His house on Babcock Street has been cited for code violations three times in four years. Bickley admits his house needed a lot of work when he bought it in 2010. He moved into it in 2012 and has been working on it. Only one side of the house's siding remains unfinished, he said.

"I got foreclosure homes all around me and I’m the one that’s being written up," he said. "That’s just making me go crazy."

He also has some long-standing personal health issues. He said he's on disability assistance and doesn't have much money.

"I understand that people are offended by the noose, but why are they offended by a racial manner?" Bickley said on the street outside his home late Friday morning. "That was our way of law. We hung everyone that was a criminal that was put to death."

"Never once did that racial thought come across my mind," he continued. "For everyone to say that, aren’t they the problem with racism?"

Bickley said he grew up on Genesee Street and he only went to one year of high school. He got kicked out of Seneca-Vocational because he was arrested for trespassing.

He said he supports immigration limits from the Middle East, but not because he has any problem with Muslims.