Delta State Police Chief Michael Peeler said there was also no evidence of an ongoing threat to students and faculty. He told reporters Monday the death investigation was being assisted by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation as well as local police and sheriff's deputies.
Online rumors that the student was found with broken limbs were disputed by Bolivar County Coroner Randolph Seals Jr.
40 Comments
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 187 pts · 352d
A black person hanging from a tree in Mississippi? Sure, it could be suicide, but c'mon. Let's be real here. It's on them to prove that this wasn't a lynching.
SoupBrick@pawb.social · 70 pts · 352d
Accountability? For police? 😐
chuckleslord@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 352d
Black people don't hang themselves. To do so is to inflict the fear of a lynching on your loved ones and community. So if you hear that a black person committed suicide by hanging, assume lynching.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 352d
I think a person killing themselves would probably not try to frame others for it. What, he thought it would be funny?
So yeah, no way in hell am I buying that this was a suicide.
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world · 139 pts · 352d
This was in Cleveland, in the Mississippi Delta. For those who don't know, the Mississippi Delta had some of the largest plantations in Mississippi and the racial and economic divide still very much holds up today. Plus Mississippi authorities are some of the most racist in the country, so no foul play my ass
ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip · 93 pts · 352d
Oh, ABC says that? The Nazi propaganda machine that just fired Jimmy Kimmel? Nothing to see here folks!
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 59 pts · 352d
Yeah, you know, black people hang themselves all the time in Mississippi.
Don’t know what about Mississippi makes black people want to hang themselves so much more than in other states. Must be a black people issue.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 352d
Some trees in Mississippi have always grown hanging black people don't you know?
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 30 pts · 352d
BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 352d
Scrolled looking. Beat me to it.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 351d
tamal3@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 352d
The family is seeking an independent autopsy. Do we know about how long that will take? Somehow, no matter the results, I doubt i'll continue to see much about this specific incident in national news, and I'd like to remind myself to check back in on this.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 352d
Shouldn't take long but yes the media will be over this by then, they barely touched it.
This is going to be another one of those "we demand justice for" and within a month Trump will be badmouthing the poor guy that was hanged.
tamal3@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 351d
*lynched
No disrespect meant, but that's what this was (barring independent evidence to the contrary).
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 351d
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 351d
Don't worry about him. Charlie is settling into his afterlife of eternal torment.
tamal3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 329d
Checking back in. No news from the 2nd autopsy yet, wonder why?
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 40 pts · 352d
Lol make sure you believe the county coronor!! It's a job you can get just by pretending to know things. There are literally no qualifications beyond being appointed. I bet that guy really knows his stuff.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 352d
I am surprised he is black
https://www.co.bolivar.ms.us/county-coroner
Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 352d
Interesting
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 352d
some places theyre elected
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 352d
A black person hanging from a tree, in a southern state, is itself a sign of foul play.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 351d
Pretty sure if anybody is found hanging from a tree without a chair or something under them is foul play. A black person hanging from a tree with nothing under them is likely a lynching and a hate crime.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 351d
https://people.com/police-initially-told-family-black-student-trey-reed-found-dead-dorm-lawyer-says-11812044
Police told his parents they found him dead in his bed, they found out from the news that he was hanged.
No foul play, my ass.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 351d
Let me guess, the police chief's son is involved.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 352d
Reddit bans all mention of that.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 352d
Poor kid. Whether suicide or otherwise. A tragedy.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 352d
It’s Mississippi. It was a lynching, and like every lynching in the past, they’ve said “oh it must have been a suicide, we’ve got no evidence!”
Chances are, the people investigating them are friends with, or in fact are, the people that did it,
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 352d
Still a fucking tragedy
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 352d
Absolutely.
But it wasn’t a suicide. It was murder.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 351d
Mississippi has a history of sweeping black murders under the rug.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 351d
Mississippi Goddamn.
spirinolas@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 352d
There was nobody around using bed sheets or burning crosses. Let's not jump into conclusions.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 351d
So the police did it. Or someone related to the police.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 352d
Strange Fruit. https://share.google/iONMg29BOy47BQSJz
MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 352d
people need to stop paying federal taxes.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 351d
This one is on Mississippi. Withholding federal taxes won't help with this.
MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 351d
All of this shit is being precipitated by the shit happening in washington.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 351d
Obligatory: Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday. Circa 1959.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 350d
Some of those who work forces are the same who burn crosses
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 352d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk
Bwaz@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 351d
Novody cares, he wasn't white.
ganksy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 351d
A second hanging was found just after in a different part of Mississippi. This victim was white. Will be interesting to see if there's interest. He was reportedly unhoused so another easy write off for the media.