I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage. They’re trying to pass this off as a suicide.
Just like that guy who “killed himself” by wrapping a rope around a tree trunk. Not a tree branch. He was tied to a tree around the trunk by his neck. They called it a suicide. No foul play involved.
I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage.
- https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/black-student-demartravion-“trey”-reed-21-found-hanging-from-tree-on-delta-state-university-campus/ar-AA1MCbF3
- https://www.newsweek.com/trey-reed-college-student-death-mississippi-2130545
- https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.13abc.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.fox13memphis.com/education/delta-state-university-student-found-hanging-from-tree-no-foul-play-suspected-officials-say/article_f5278a0a-0b0f-47c6-b829-a8cffc78a75e.html
- https://mississippitoday.org/2025/09/15/delta-state-university-is-investigating-a-students-death/
- https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.wbls.com/news/deceased-black-student-found-hung-at-delta-state-university/
It really irks me when people use “mainstream media” as a pejorative like there’s some kind of conspiracy. There are way more sources covering it than that, but I think that’s more than enough to make my point.
It really irks me when people use “mainstream media” as a pejorative like there’s some kind of conspiracy
A small number of private companies with national syndication are owned by a cartel of billionaires. These billionaires regularly meet to discuss and align themselves on policies that benefit their group at the expense of everyone else. The policies they agree to are reflected in the media coverage.
This is a textbook conspiracy. Just not an “Alex Jones” style conspiracy, where a Murdoch and an Ellison and a Gates have to be lizard people to spice up the relatively banal affair of promoting tax cuts, deregulation, and white supremacy.
Those are all local news outlets. This is the first I’m hearing of this. I live in Atlanta.
The second and third ones on the list are MSN & Newsweek. So, if by “local” you mean “US based”, or by “all” you mean “sone.”
ETA https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/body-black-student-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-rcna231661
AP News has picked it up now at least.
This would be the first acknowledged US lynching since '81. 1981.
Would Epstein have been considered Lynched?
they’ll call it a suicide and keep the last acknowledgement in the 80’s.
Yup.
Dude had defensive wounds like bruises and a broken arm. Anyways, it’s definitely suicide, so we don’t have to look into it any further /s
Well yeah. Look at people who try and fail to kill themselves. Usually no fresh defensive wounds. Clearly that’s what they’re always missing.
Dude had defensive wounds like bruises and a broken arm.
Citation needed especially since the Coroner’s department has specifically refuted this.
Well, cops said cops are innocent. Must be true.
I think they were joking about that like people say someone committed suicide with two shots to the back of the head. But thanks for posting that article, it does say the coroner didn’t find any evidence of assault so far.
I think they were joking about that
Nah, there’s a pile of misinformation circulating on social media claiming that the deceased had broken arms / legs / bruises / etc.
People unthinkingly gobble it up because it fits their world view. Farther down in the comments here you can find people already claiming that it’s a cover-up / conspiracy because the Coroner’s Statement (he’s black BTW) doesn’t jive with what they want to believe.
Maybe but let’s wait for a reliable source before citing somethong transparently aligned, unqualified to know what a defensive wound looks like, and known for lying-like a coroner.
I genuinely cannot think of a less reliable source.
The comment you are referring to is unedited and ends with a /s Commonly used as a tag for sarcasm in case they thought someone may mistake it for being serious.
Yes, but it could be read that only the final sentence was being said sarcastically. Even with the context of the rest of the conversation.
Call me crazy but I remember a few of these exact circumstances over the years. Always passed off as an accident or suicide or something…
If there was a black man hung in Mississippi, odds are that it was NOT a suicide. This is awful
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!
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
Damn. That must be a terrible place to live. Bet the property values are ass, even for Mississippi.
Historically accurate too
“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
Bolivar County fought for fifty years to keep its high schools segregated.
I’m absolutely confident that we can trust the Bolivar County Police department to thoroughly investigate the death of a black college student /s
I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage.
If a white conservative student athlete in a deep-blue area of the country had been shot and killed yesterday for no really apparent reason, it would be the lead story on every single news that exists.
I mean, obviously if this were a legitimate lynching… the guy would have had broken limbs from defending himself… /s 🤦♂️
“As of this time, there’s no evidence of foul play,” Peeler said, adding that the Bolivar County Coroner’s Office retrieved Reed’s body for further examination. Deputy Coroner Murray Roark, who assisted in the medical review, stated there were no signs of broken limbs and suggested the case pointed toward self-harm, though the investigation remains active.
Kind of comes over like “We can tell this isn’t a lynching because we always break the victim’s legs.”
There have been rumors that both of the guy’s legs were broken. IDK whether this is just the coroner’s office clearing up wild social media speculation, or if they’re so brazen about a coverup that they’re willing to lie about the state of his body, but that’s why they specifically talked about broken limbs.
Supposedly the autopsy report will be released in full, but as you say - if they are willing to cover it up then the report won’t matter.
An independent review would be needed, which, with this admin especially, isn’t going to happen.
Presumably they’re going to release the body to the family at some point, and at that stage it’ll become obvious whether the legs are broken or not broken. It would have to be a pretty shockingly brazen coverup for that part of the story to be true and covered up.
“Oops, we accidentally cremated him.”
The evidence was destroyed.
Correct, that kind of thing has happened before. That would be a shockingly brazen coverup.
It would have to be a pretty shockingly brazen coverup for that part of the story to be true and covered up.
I agree, and at the same time… I can still see it as a possibility given everything else going on. There are plenty of ways “unfortunate mishandling” can happen.
I have even lower trust these days. There is so much willingness to blatantly lie all the way up to the federal level that I doubt I would trust any report produced. Not to say I’d assume it was something else, just that I have virtually zero trust in the police there or the coroner.
What I’m saying is that you do not have to trust the police or the coroner in order to know whether the guy’s legs were actually broken.
I understood entirely.
What I said was there is entirely the possibility of “Oops! His body went to the furnace instead”, or “oh no! The body was mishandled and fell”, or a whole variety of other things.
Off the top of my head, I can recall cases where:
- The body is sent to the wrong place
- The wrong body is sent to the right place
- Bodies not kept at temperature and then sent for cremation
- Bodies suffered damage due to falling down stairs
- Mishandling of bodies and reporting with the specific intent to cover up crimes (CA Sheriffs office, I remember this one distinctly, because they were protecting cops)
I’m saying its not a guarantee until the body of this kid ends up with the family, and given the history in this particular area… I have little to no trust of those involved.
Not specifically him, but…yeah, pretty much. Lynchings typically involve torture and bodily mutilation. They don’t want to “just” kill someone, they want to send a message. Hiding it as something else kind of defeats the purpose.
I had to read that part of the article twice to be sure my brain wasn’t broken.
If it were a legitimate lynching he wouldn’t be pregnant
https://www.blackenterprise.com/delta-university-hanging-reed-student-mississippi/
Since link seems to be broken right now
Interesting.
