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

  • primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus
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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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      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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        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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      “We have a corners report stating he had no bruises, broken bones, or lacerations”

      “May we need if?”

      “No.”

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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