I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage. They’re trying to pass this off as a suicide.
Black Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
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RagingRobot 70 points a year ago
Those are all local news outlets. This is the first I'm hearing of this. I live in Atlanta.
nulluser 13 points a year ago
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."
humorlessrepost 5 points a year ago
Most local news outlets aren’t local.
For an Atlanta example, 11Alive is owned by Tegna, which owns over 50 stations, and is being acquired by Nexstar, after which they’ll have hundreds.
Professorozone 4 points a year ago
Newsweek and MSN are local?
brucethemoose -2 points a year ago
MSN is a repost of this: https://hip-hopvibe.com/...
Newsweek's coverage seems authentic, yes. It's not like a comprehensive conspiracy or anything, and it is plausibly a suicide.
UnderpantsWeevil 30 points a year ago
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.
andros_rex 8 points a year ago
When I posted this, the Google search I did only gave me two results. There are more now, but I had only seen anything about it in a Facebook group I was in.
It does seem to be being picked up more. It is very concerning that the family are saying that his limbs were broken and the police are not. I have zero faith that there will be a genuine investigation - I do think it will be covered up and forgotten within a month, while we still have people pushing for “moments of silence” in schools for the dead Nazi.
ZephyrXero 153 points a year ago
If there was a black man hung in Mississippi, odds are that it was NOT a suicide. This is awful
nymnympseudonym 115 points a year ago
“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
andros_rex 57 points a year ago
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
QuoVadisHomines 3 points a year ago
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.
QuoVadisHomines 1 point a year ago
That wouldnt demonstrate a racial motivation
nymnympseudonym 1 point a year ago
Racial tensions are high
JFC you just made me realize ... what if Tyler was a POC? With Trump throwing gasoline on the fire like he is now? Shit, we possibly could be in low level race war territory at that point
QuoVadisHomines 2 points a year ago
Personally I don’t think a race war is coming and it wouldn’t make sense tosee this administration as promoting one.
It’s a class war. Class war frequently captures the minority populations so while it can seem like a race war it is a class war.
primrosepathspeedrun 26 points a year ago
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!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 10 points a year ago
Historically accurate too
QuoVadisHomines 2 points a year ago
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?
apftwb 7 points a year ago
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.
QuoVadisHomines 2 points a year ago
Lynching hasn’t been “common” in over 70 years. The Klan hasn’t been prominent in 40-50 years there.
There is zero reason based on what we have for evidence right now to suspect police were involved in the crime or are covering this up.
Emma_Gold_Man 2 points a year ago
There's a reason songs like these exist:
Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone
Here's to the State of Mississippi - Phil Ochs
What's Going On Down There - Malvina Reynolds
yamamoon 5 points a year ago
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.
QuoVadisHomines 1 point a year ago
Except the police aren’t making this claim, the coroner’s office did and there’s zero reason to expect police involvement.
primrosepathspeedrun 0 points a year ago
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.
UnderpantsWeevil 1 point a year ago
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
primrosepathspeedrun 2 points a year ago
Damn. That must be a terrible place to live. Bet the property values are ass, even for Mississippi.
primrosepathspeedrun 2 points a year ago
Coroners are not medical professionals. They are not certified, they have no domain specific education. They just say what the cops want.
SaveTheTuaHawk 96 points a year ago
This would be the first acknowledged US lynching since '81. 1981.
brendansimms 74 points a year ago
they'll call it a suicide and keep the last acknowledgement in the 80's.
mic_check_one_two 15 points a year ago
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
Buelldozer 51 points a year ago
Dude had defensive wounds like bruises and a broken arm.
Citation needed especially since the Coroner's department has specifically refuted this.
LifeInMultipleChoice 12 points a year ago
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.
primrosepathspeedrun 1 point a year ago
Well, cops said cops are innocent. Must be true.
primrosepathspeedrun 6 points a year ago
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.
UnderpantsWeevil 3 points a year ago
Would Epstein have been considered Lynched?
TheMinister 3 points a year ago
There have been numerous apparent lynchings in recent years. But they always say “no foul play expected”
floofloof 57 points a year ago
“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."
PhilipTheBucket 28 points a year ago
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.
curbstickle 17 points a year ago
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.
PhilipTheBucket 10 points a year ago
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.
ech 16 points a year ago
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.
ThatGuy46475 5 points a year ago
If it were a legitimate lynching he wouldn’t be pregnant
PhilipTheBucket 36 points a year ago
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.
ThatWeirdGuy1001 31 points a year ago
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.
Blackmist 15 points a year ago
Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
America: How tragic, we must do more to protect students from the pressures of modern life!
Black Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
America: Probably gang related.
TheMinister 24 points a year ago
Nah, we immediately think of lynchings.
PhilipTheBucket 15 points a year ago
https://www.blackenterprise.com/...
Since link seems to be broken right now
not_that_guy05 -5 points a year ago
Interesting.
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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.
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