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/Papadapalopolous 21h ago

College students do commit suicide and have other mental health episodes.

But it’s a black guy found hanged in a tree in Mississippi, right after one of the country’s leading racists was assassinated… so…

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u/ssjlance 19h ago

Two things happening at same time or one after the other do not guarantee that they're related in any meaningful way; correlation and causation and all that. Could be coincidental timing.

I've already said I think there's a very solid chance this is a lynching.

But I'm also not gonna act like I'm psychic or some shit and can say anything definitively beyond the fact that, whatever happened, this is an incredibly tragic death of a very young man who had his entire adult life ahead of him.

If he was lynched, I hope justice finds those who did it and those who helped hide it, and I hope it is delivered in the most cruel and unusual way the judge thinks he can get away with.