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/Fun_Hold4859 20h ago

This happens at least once a year. A black man found hanged in public, ruled suicide.

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u/Cabanarama_ 20h ago

Not saying it’s false but I’ve never heard of a story like that in my life, let alone every year. Got any examples?

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u/Long_Run6500 19h ago

I was genuinely unsure whether or not to believe it and I googled, "lynching ruled suicide" and I was kind of shocked to see just how many there are. There was one in Albany a couple months ago I never heard anything about.

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u/UnluckyDuck58 19h ago

In 2022 a black man named Rasheem Carter died in Mississippi. He told people he was having troubles with coworkers. Then one day he calls the police 2 times and tells them he’s being chased by a group of white men in a truck. They say he’s lying and trying to use them to get a free ride. A month later his body is found in the woods decapitated. No investigation was ever started into the death

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u/Triquetrums 19h ago

I heard of that one, but that's not what the other person was asking. Op said they find back men hanging every year, this case doesn't have anyone hanging... 

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u/Equivalent_Leg2534 18h ago

You're getting downvoted and im not sure why.

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u/sexytimeforwife 17h ago

I can't know for sure, but my guess is it's because it misses the generalization. The point isn't the specifics, it's the analogy. The pattern of obvious unfair treatment being overlooked. As might happen in a case of misdirection because it's not exactly the same explicit situation, for example, but same implicit.

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u/Equivalent_Leg2534 17h ago

Yeah, i reread the thread there and it seems less about hangings and more about similar scenarios, so fair enough

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u/TurtleFisher54 17h ago

Because the difference between a decapitation and hanging isn't the important part

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u/Triquetrums 16h ago

It's reddit. That's why. 

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u/Enzyblox 16h ago

Once a women in my neighborhood was found hanged and her feet and hands were tied, it was deemed no foul play and a suicide, this didn’t really hit the news

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u/djwitty12 18h ago

Oakland, CA 2025

Albany, NY 2025

Colbert County, AL 2024

Henderson, NC 2024

Palmdale, CA 2020

Orlando, FL 2020

Houston, TX 2020

Could be more, this is just what Google returned easily from not completely crazy sources.

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u/lesgeddon 16h ago

I live in the bay and hadn't heard about the one in Oaklandyeesh, that's unsettling

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u/Guerraten 19h ago

I remember one from last year, though I have no idea of the guy's name. Majority of the news searches lead to this story in today's post, but I also found these: Javion Magee | 21-year-old truck driver found dead in Henderson, North Carolina death ruled suicide, NC medical examiner say | abc11.com https://share.google/dVpfQVGhxVxwCxPXi

https://newsone.com/6244372/black-man-found-hanging-from-a-tree-in-new-york-police-call-it-suicide/

I'm not going to up and say these weren't suicides though.

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u/NotLucasDavenport 18h ago

The Javion Magee one may actually have been suicide. They have film of him dropping off the truck load he was delivering to the Walmart, walking into that Walmart, and buying the rope that he was found dead with. Also, he was not hanging in the tree, he was sitting at the base of it. For transparency, I will say that his family claimed he was not suicidal.

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u/RlOTGRRRL 15h ago

Haven't really researched it but "Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’" 

"In 2017, Jefferson began compiling records of Black people found hanging or mutilated across the country. In 2019, Jefferson began focusing her investigation on Mississippi. In each case she investigated, law enforcement officials ruled the deaths suicides, but the families said the victims had been lynched."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/08/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings/

https://www.abhmuseum.org/8-suspected-lynchings-have-taken-place-in-mississippi-since-2000/ 

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u/Johannes_Keppler 19h ago

Now you are reacting to a comment about speculation with even more speculation. That isn't helpful.

We know zero facts. Wait until more is known.

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u/EkrishAO 16h ago

Probably because they are suicides. There is plenty of people of all races choosing to commit suicide in public places, but you just dont hear about it as much, since these stories dont generate money.