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.

  • TallonMetroid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    157
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    22 hours ago

    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.

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      19
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      11 hours ago

      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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      11 hours ago

      Sure, it could be suicide, but c’mon

      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.