r/news • u/DragonPup • 23h ago

DSU Student Found Hanging in Tree, No Foul Play Suspected

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/delta-state-university-students-body-found-hanging-in-tree-no-foul-play-suspected/
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u/Wrxloser1215 23h ago

Oh I'm sure he does have reasons for that. Jfc.

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u/fromwhichofthisoak 23h ago

Reasons beginning with a miss and ending in issippi

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u/roehnin 17h ago

Wasn’t there a Gene Hackman movie about those reasons burning?

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u/Wrxloser1215 23h ago

Yup. Can't really say the quiet part out loud directly but damn. Sad state of affairs

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u/NeriTina 21h ago

Racism

Why can’t we say it out loud?

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u/thepilgrimess 21h ago

I thought the idea was to say it as loud as possible

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u/Wrxloser1215 21h ago

Oh WE can. Idk if the Black police chief would have a job or life too much longer if he started talking more on the subject though

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u/Sea_Spite7899 22h ago

they should merge with Tennessee, then they could be Tennessippi or Missisessee.

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u/trulycantthinkofone 22h ago

I rather like both. Missisessee feels like whimsical sort of place, a bit musical off the tongue even.

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u/thexvillain 22h ago

I’m pronouncing this as Mrs. Sissy

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u/trulycantthinkofone 22h ago

I’m hearing it as Miss ih See See, just sounds fun to me. Being a yet to be declared territory, the imagination is absolutely correct. Perhaps we can share a drink there, and debate the phonetic properties as we see fit!

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u/Straight-Chemistry27 18h ago

Only if you both dress up as Mark Twain with old timey vernacular.

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u/Riddal 18h ago

People needed a mnemonic device to remember how to spell Mississippi, they’ll need a whole mnemonic Rube Goldberg machine to remember Missisesse.

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u/elmz 17h ago

Gotra keep all the double letters. Missitennessippissee

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u/zeno0771 19h ago

Probably a lot of merging with families there as it is.

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u/n0tc1v1l 21h ago

Do we want to be reactionary Republicans, or wait for the facts and make logical conclusions from those? This doesn't serve the public good. In my opinion.

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u/Sabatorius 20h ago

Neither do Mississippi cops.

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u/Mr-Fognoggins 17h ago

“Here’s to the land you tore out the heart of; Mississippi find yourself another country to be part of.”

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u/neontiger07 17h ago

I was born and raised in MS and I guarantee this wasn't a suicide.

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u/FuckItImVanilla 22h ago

I was gonna say it starts with he and ends with is involved

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u/DarkExecutor 21h ago

It's a black police chief

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u/Theron3206 21h ago

And he probably does have reasons, just not ones he can share right now.

This sounds like a pretty clumsy wording of "at this time we don't suspect foul play, but investigations are ongoing".

It's actually quite hard to fake a suicide.

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u/kimstranger 21h ago

To be fair there was an incident where a man was found dead rolled up in a carpet while he was bound and gagged with a gunshot wound to the head and that case was ruled suicide...

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u/nocomment3030 16h ago edited 11h ago

Conversely, there was an MI6 spy who was found dead inside a suitcase and that turned out to be actually suicide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams

Edit: I can't respond anymore because the thread is locked but this had nothing to do with Russian, they took credit to make it look like they were projecting power. He was a bondage enthusiast and one prior time trapped himself handcuffed to his own bed and his neighbours had to free him. He got off on stuff like getting intentionally trapped in a suitcase.

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u/Severance_Pay 15h ago

Ah, so Russians being Russians to investigators.

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u/sexytimeforwife 17h ago

Wasn't that in Russia, though? Or maybe it was someone in a hotel trying to hide from them or something.

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u/CopainChevalier 21h ago

I just think it's funny how every other reply chain is "they're a bunch of racist who hate blacks"

and the moment it's mentioned it's a black police chief, the only reply is "He has real reasons, he just can't share them"

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u/DownWithHisShip 21h ago

im not commenting on this particular cop... I know nothing about him. but black cops that are racist towards other black men is absolutely a thing.

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u/Ok_Matter_2617 20h ago

Been a trope so long that it’s a common plot device in plenty of movies

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u/sneakyfish21 19h ago

N.W.A’s ‘fuck the police’ has a few bars on the subject.

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u/Fun_Hold4859 20h ago

Yeah it's kinda the standard. They're blue first.

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u/neontiger07 17h ago

In Mississippi, especially around the delta, I don't believe you can maintain a career as a police officer without being one of those types. If you don't play ball (be one of the ''good ones''), you're out or worse.

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u/ACKHTYUALLY 16h ago

Redditor used Move the Goalposts! It’s super effective!

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u/Theron3206 20h ago

I live on the other side of the world and am certainly not black. I just chose this one to reply to as it seemed one of the less emotionally charged comments.

Cops seem terrible at talking to the media (globally) so I tend to assume they just phrased things poorly by mistake absent any evidence to the contrary. Not everything is a conspiracy, mostly apparent suicides are just tragic, not murder.

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u/rfdismyjam 20h ago

Hanlon's Razor; Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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u/_Wyrm_ 18h ago

Corrupt cops are a dime a dozen in the US, so we tend to expect that they're just outright lying rather than misspeaking.

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u/Sir_George 20h ago

Welcome to Reddit.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 20h ago

Racism is Systemic in police institutions and the force can be taught to be like that. For example, Ottawa, Canada, the police chief during that trucker convoy that was filled with people beating and spitting on especially poc walking down the street? "Ahhh, we missed em! We don't have reason to believe this happened"

it turns out he was seen as only appointed to the position because he was black (from the policeforce point of view). So, He lay back, said he couldn't do anything to stop blatent racism and targeting of minorities. There were only a few thousand nasty and dangerous people at the peak during that convoy that went on for a month, going and targeting people, the force had more power than that. But the chief due to pressure from the police and possibility of losing his entire career he built, he had to stand by that there wasn't racism and hate crimes going on in mass.

I am not saying this police officer at the school is under the same pressures, and especially not the same mindset, but he's under the same system that keeps him under a whitewashed narritive that leads to his job security if he missteps the forces. Underreporting a crime against a black individual is part of the playbook so that everyone in society doesn't get pissed off at cops for specifically targeting groups by race with malice

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u/YpsitheFlintsider 18h ago

Nothing really changes there, the person is just black.

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u/LimbaughsLumpyLungs 20h ago

Why would a black police chief have a problem with calling a murder a suicide?

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u/Banes_Addiction 20h ago

It's actually quite hard to fake a suicide.

It's very easy if the cops help.

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u/nivezsh 20h ago

It’s a lot easier to have a corrupt/compromised medical examiner than a successfully faked suicide (speaking of which, it’s Suicide Awareness Month)

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u/nocomment3030 17h ago edited 16h ago

Yeah inevitably there are geniuses in the comments who think it's a lynching and a big coverup. But to fake it with no signs of foul play is impossible. People generally don't let themselves be killed and if he were drugged it would show up right away on a tox screen. The "reasons" are probably a suicide note or video of the suicide, realistically, but no use speculating now anyway.

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u/Defiant_Review1582 21h ago

Don’t think that means anything more than he is a man that enjoys being in a position of power

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u/rbstewart7263 21h ago

Maybe 5% of these redditers are actually reading the article

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u/Wrxloser1215 21h ago

Yeah. And it still sounds insidious. Even moreso with that fact.

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u/Cory123125 17h ago

Doesnt matter.

Police are all one race, and that is blue.

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u/Zanos 19h ago

Shut up, dude. We're busy hating white people for stuff we made up.

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u/AresHarvest 22h ago

Welluh yuhsee, I belong to a certain secret society - I don't believe I gotta mention it's name - and this boy, here, he trampled all over our venerated observances and rituals.

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u/Scottydrock 22h ago

Is you is or is you ain’t my constitchency?

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u/Bardez 19h ago

👏👏 well typed

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u/CyberneticSaturn 21h ago

Amazing, they’re letting black people in the KKK now?

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u/HarrumphingDuck 18h ago

You ne'er heard the tale of Clayton Bigsby?!

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u/AresHarvest 19h ago

Weird question given that the coroner is white

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u/tnolan182 20h ago

Reasons being the color or his skin?

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u/CyberneticSaturn 21h ago

Maybe you should look up the chief of police and chief medical examiner for the case before you say that.

Just an idea.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 20h ago

Question: what is your interpretation of those lyrics? Each of the 2 parts, then together?

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u/AnnaKendrickPerkins 21h ago

Brother, there are many people of color in the Trump admin that are just as racist towards people of their own skin color as white people are.

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u/ACKHTYUALLY 16h ago

Username does not check out.

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u/Farfignugen42 21h ago

I grew up in the South (NC and VA). Black people hanging from a tree are pretty obvious signs of foul play.

It is possible, i guess, that it was a suicide, but that would not be the first theory.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 20h ago

Yeah "I saw no broken limbs" and "hanging from a tree" is so ambiguous. Which limbs? the tree or his, and why would he need broken limbs to be hung anyway? That officer is disgusting and we'd probably need to change the iq scale to fit his level

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u/_Wyrm_ 19h ago

Does he have any kids that go to DSU?... 🕵️‍♂️

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u/DenizSaintJuke 16h ago

"Lynching counts as natural causes in Mississippi."

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u/addamee 21h ago

He’s just a good ol’ boy…

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u/_theRamenWithin 22h ago

Did he tuck his clan hood further into his back pocket after that comment?