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Are we actually sure this is a lynching? Like yeah cops lie as often as they talk, but is there any reason to think it other than the idea that a black person in the US isn't likely to hang themselves from a tree?
I'm not doubting it could be a lynching. I just don't want to spread this info if there is no evidence yet.
Broken limbs. Cops didn't investigate. Pretty obvious.
How do we know there are broken limbs?
https://people.com/body-black-student-found-hanging-tree-college-campus-11810983
"Bolivar County Deputy Coroner Murray Roark told the Mississippi Free Press that he “saw no broken limbs” on Reed, but did not elaborate due to the ongoing investigation.
“I don’t think I should probably discuss this any further than that, my opinion is that it was self-done, and I have reasons for that,” Roark said.
Should be huge alarm bells there. It's not rare, but uncommon for people to hang themselves in public. Two curious points are immediately being brought to mind with the history of the nation and state behind the scenes.
https://wreg.com/news/mid-south/coroner-says-no-evidence-of-assault-after-body-found-hanging-on-ms-college-campus
I guess the county coroner could be covering up a lynching, but he's also a black man and it seems unlikely given the family will just have an independent autopsy done. Surely the family will make a statement if they saw the body and there were obvious signs of an attack.
I mean, black cops exist. Being black doesn't strictly translate into solidarity, unfortunately.
Not only that, but he could be under threat of being fired and losing his position, or maybe he does not care about the person at all and see his corp colleagues as his true brotherhood. Or the coroner may simply be incompetent. Too many possibilities.
The US being the US, the police or any institution cannot be trusted in matters of racism and hate crime against minorities. It's just like the fruit of the poisonous tree principle, but applied to the whole US institutions, and specially in the case of Southern US institutions.
For sure, which is why I said it would be unlikely and not impossible. Maybe it's more likely than I'm thinking, but idk I just grew up in a town not unlike Cleveland and not that far from it. It might not even be a majority white population, which is true in a lot of small southern "cities" (they aren't large cities, populations of ~15k)
And I mean Candace Owens exists so anything is possible
I mean, being people, and Americans at that, black people run the gamut, including those complicit in the white supremacist criminal punishment system. Which a coroner knowingly enters, usually having other options in medical fields. According to some random site, Ohio coroners are elected positions, so they are even members of the political class!
Yeah, I agree. This town is in Mississippi, though. Also doesn't even require medical qualifications, they take a class after being elected.
tbh that could be a wash on who joins because it may then attact "criminology" types and nepo hires. I don't know anything about this one particular guy though.
Let's hope.
Why would you even consider the coroner is telling the truth here.
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