I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage. They’re trying to pass this off as a suicide.

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    If there was a black man hung in Mississippi, odds are that it was NOT a suicide. This is awful

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      The cops said it was a suicide. Are you not trusting the police in Mississippi to be honest about when a black man seeking education found hanging from a tree is suicide?

      Are you saying you don’t trust the police to not murder whoever they want for no reason with no accountability then ask for extra money to do more?

      Because that’s an awfully cynical thing to suggest!

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        “We have a corners report stating he had no bruises, broken bones, or lacerations”

        “May we need if?”

        “No.”

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        Do you have a specific reason to believe the police killed this guy or are you just really off the mark here?

        Even if he was murdered there’s no evidence to point to a suspect yet you are concluding it had to be the police, why?

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          He’s saying we shouldn’t trust the police because they have a history of lying to the public to protect themselves.

          As it turns out, when you lie to people, they tend not to trust you in the future. At least if they’re not stupid.

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          I didn’t say i thought that. I dont think that. Of course I have no evidence for the thing I never said I thought. That thing I said it would be very cynical to assume.

          I don’t even believe in suicide. No such thing. Just regular murder and social murder.

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          No one has any public evidence one way or another. Its all circumstantial.

          Mississippi is the least transparent state in the Union. There is no legal mechanism to compel the Mississippi police to release any documentation on this death. This is also the deep south where lynching were common a generation or two ago and cop were open Klan members.

          We are going back to the old ways in this country. This might be a symptom of that.

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        Are you not trusting the police in Mississippi to be honest about when a black man seeking education found hanging from a tree is suicide?

        Apparently, Emmett Till “commuted suicide” just thirty miles away

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      “As of this time, there’s no evidence of foul play”

      Yeah, no evidence at all. Not like racial tensions at their highest in 50+ years, political assassinations happening on college campuses, and a Southern university smack in the center of where KKK activity was an open secret just a generation ago.

      Probably he slipped and fell, maybe he was learning Russian culture /s

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        None of that is relevant to this case. Racial tensions are high and it is entirely possible that had nothing to do with this guy’s death. There’s no evidence to conclude anything. That can change but right now the state cannot make claims they cannot support with actual evidence.

        If they assert this was a racially motivated killing then they need to have suspects or direct evidence fir this (eg slurs written on the body) as it would be impossible to maintain this motive without them.