Bowtie Barbershop in Placerville, California, had a Colin Kaepernick doll hanging from a noose in its shop for two years.

The barbershop's owner said he had "literally no idea" the doll was offensive until it went viral online.

He has since apologized and taken the doll down.

The owner of a barber shop who had a Colin Kaepernick doll hanging from a noose in his shop said he had "no idea" it was offensive.

Bowtie Barbershop's owner, identified to FOX 40 only as "Bowtie Barber," apologized for the doll hanging in his Placerville, California, shop after photos of it surfaced online.

"I literally had no idea that I was offending people. We have a hangman out here called George and so, you know, with the theme of hangtown I hung him. And it was wrong, it was absolutely wrong," he said.

Placerville, where the barbershop is located, was once known as Historic Hangtown because three men who were convicted of robbery, murder, and attempted murder were hanged in the town in 1849.

The town has a Hangtown festival each year, and a mannequin still hangs from the location where the convicts were killed.

Bowtie Barbershop first hung the Kaepernick doll in 2016, when the former football quarterback and his teammate first took a knee during the national anthem.

Kaepernick and teammate Eric Reid knelt during the national anthem before a game on September 1, 2016, to protest police brutally and the oppression of people of color in the United States.

"I am a diehard 49ers fan and when that action happened there was a lot portrayed on the 49ers and I took it personally," Bowtie Barber’s owner told Fox 40.

Kaepernick hasn't played in an NFL game since 2016, but his attorney suggested earlier this week that the former quarterback could be signed next week.

Attorney Mark Geragos suggested to TMZ that there are teams that have expressed interest in signing Kaepernick, but would not reveal which ones.