A noose was found in a riverside park in Bayonne on Friday morning, police said.

At about 8:15 a.m., a rope fashioned in the shape of a noose was found in a tree in Dennis P. Collins Park, said Capt. Joseph Scerbo. No suspects were in custody and the incident was under investigation, he said.

The park sits alongside the Hudson River, adjacent to the Bayonne Bridge.

As of Friday morning, the noose was not being looked at as a hate crime, Scerbo said. By 11 a.m., the noose had been removed and the scene cleared, he said.

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This is the third time in as many months that claims of a noose in North Jersey have bubbled up.

Last month, a black Englewood Hospital worker who found a noose in his work area in 2017 sued the hospital, claiming he was targeted in a bias crime and that the hospital was negligent.

In February, a noose was found at the American Dream construction site. State police were investigating at the time.

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