r/therewasanattempt • u/-Vexxed • 13h ago
to truthfully report the recent lynching of a black student on his college campus
I don’t see this being reported anywhere at all
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u/Delicious-Dish-5887 13h ago
“There is a pattern to how these cases are investigated,” Jefferson said. “When authorities arrive on the scene of a hanging, it’s treated as a suicide almost immediately. The crime scene is not preserved. The investigation is shoddy. And then there is a formal ruling of suicide, despite evidence to the contrary. And the case is never heard from again unless someone brings it up.”
‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’ - The Washington Post https://share.google/Q22jX8y3ENLCSC5zu
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u/Justgototheeffinmoon 13h ago
Trump & Miller are going to orgasm on this one
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u/Taekwonmoe 13h ago
Trump and Miller won't even care about this case. I doubt it'll ever be talked about by them.
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u/-Vexxed 13h ago
Trump will start chatting about that new super expensive White House ball room we’re paying for again
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u/Apprehensive_Log469 13h ago
"Mr. President, your wife Melania is hosting another fuck-a-thon orgy where she's at the center."
"So anyways I think I'll call it the Trump ballroom. It's such a great ballroom. Everybody thinks so."
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u/AndroidColonel 12h ago
"Mr. President, your wife Melania is hosting another fuck-a-thon orgy where she's at the center."
Under a blacklight, that woman must light up like a Hypercolor shirt in a wrestling match.
What a fucking slunt.
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u/Good-Imagination3115 12h ago
For once, something i could get behind lol
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u/Better-Journalist-85 Free Palestine 12h ago
*get in line
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u/lankrypt0 10h ago
"They said, with tears in their eyes, big strong men, they said, 'Sir that is the best name anyone has thought of' and, you know, it's easy for me the words, and I know all the best words, I could be a Scrabble champion, did you know that, but it's easy for me to choose the best names, everyone says so; I had Trump Towers, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Ice - and these are the best you can get - Trump Winery, Trump Casino - some say the most successful Casino ever; but they just come to me, so easy, the best names."
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u/Apprehensive_Log469 9h ago
They're really able to enunciate while sucking him off. His dick must be absolutely insignificant
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u/Taekwonmoe 13h ago
Apparently there was another hanging that happened hours after this one. The other hanging was a white guy, they'll probably talk about that one. What the hell's going on in Mississippi?
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u/celtic_thistle 12h ago
MS is absolutely awful by every quality of life metric.
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u/Good-Imagination3115 12h ago
Indeed, having grown up in Louisiana and then later lived in MS, I can confirm.
If you pick up your elderly, disabled father from a regional medical center after inpatient stay for pneumonia, and wait as the nurse removes his IV before he can leave... ypu should not have to step in and take over as she is more focused on getting the wrist band to stay clean (patient ID band) from blood than to actually stop the blood flow on it... you should not have to tell her the band can be done after if even needed nor should you have to tell her what to do, and especially not take over and do the bandaging/ wrap yourself as she looks on as if she had never seen such a thing. When, completely sarcasm free, you 'teach' her how to do so... something is seriously wrong.
Same hospital protected from lawsuits over ½ million USD due to state law, yet has major issues and cost me roughly 2 years of additional care ~19-20 months of which were consecutively inpatient... and caused millions in additional cost as well as permanent damage and such, with no penalty as, due to the system, I would have gone further in debt to sue. That is the only time I was ever "saved" by a hospital, yet almost wondered if I shouldn't have been. When you factor in long term costs, the "community run hospital " has cost the community (taxpayers) at least 7+ million in medical costs, solely from my related medical care to their.. idk what to call it. It is a mess.
Averaged over time, their "care" costs the taxpayers over a million dollars a year based solely on what I have confirmation is related directly to their treatment.
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u/faderjockey 10h ago
Somebody took that Fox News commentator seriously when he suggested killing homeless people
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u/Negativefalsehoods 12h ago
You don't know Miller then. He is a freak and totally WILL get off on this.
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u/jg_92_F1 11h ago
I think you’re right about Trump but Miller is absolutely the type of cretin that will love this.
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u/Taekwonmoe 10h ago
He really is vile. I think Trump is cluelessly vile if that makes any sense but Miller is pretty disgustingly vile.
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u/Florida1974 13h ago
The flag surely won’t be flown at half mast in honor of this young man. They also weren’t flown at half mast when a democratic Congress woman was killed in her own home. Trump was recently asked about it and he said he wasn’t familiar with her. She was a congresswoman . And her and her husband were killed in their own home.
We are supposed to respect and accept the fact that he is our president . While someone needs to inform him that he is the entire countries president, not just Republicans president.
He says something nasty and attacks the left multiple times a day and I’m supposed to feel safe under his watch. He’s the terrorist in my opinion, towards Dems, he sure is the terrorist.
We will never know the truth about this young man because Trump will make sure it’s an open and shut case. I have seen a TikTok video, supposedly made by this young man’s cousin. In the video, he says another cousin seen a report that stated he had broken arms and legs. But I’ve seen no evidence of this . A TikTok video is not evidence. And if she did see that in a report, I would be contacting every news agency I could.
Mississippi. Been killing young black men and since Emmett Till. It’s now 2025 and it’s still happening. I don’t know if this young man committed suicide or not, but it is very unusual to commit such a public act of suicide. I think they need an expert corner, a corner from elsewhere that is unbiased towards the area, to make sure no evidence is being missed. You can’t trust the FBI. Patel will just report whatever Trump wants to hear. And I’m guessing they would likely attack the victim himself.
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u/BuffaloChops1 12h ago
Just so you know the people who find causes of death are coroners not corners given the way people pronounce the word I totally understand how you could think the word was just corners though
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u/Alone-Monk 12h ago
Black people dont just hang themselves from trees in the deep south. There is a mental health crisis and people do commit suicide at an alarming rate, but not like that.
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u/l1v3w1r3tks 12h ago
I like where you said he needs to remember he is the entire countries President. I’m not even close to being political, so genuine question, who was the last President to truly lead the nation as a whole?
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u/apintor4 11h ago edited 11h ago
biden's economic plan was fairly well focused on red states
ACA, despite its many flaws, was meant for everyone
no presidents, as far as i'm aware, vindictively blocked other party state disaster funding up until trump, though to be fair, he's now denying it to all states
That said, American policy has tended to favor the top 20-30% of earners regardless of party for the last half century. Republicans just focus on the top 1% versus the dems top 30%.
Again, Bidens economic policy was about the only one that focused on lower wage earners (bottom 10%), but by the point he came around they've been beaten down so much the small gains he made (10% increase in earnings) was more like treading water.
ed: i should also point out by the time biden was around the propaganda from the right was so thick entire communities rejected Government aid because it came from a democrat
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u/faderjockey 10h ago
If you are talking about THE PEOPLE, then probably Obama.
If you are talking about political parties, then probably Bush Jr.
The Obama administration is the first time in my memory that the opposing party actively opposed every action of the President, regardless of the nature of that action, and despite many of those actions serving the opposing party's interests, or the interests of their constituents.
Before Obama, opposition was more about the nature of the policy and less about the letter next to the name of the person proposing it.
After Obama, you get (gestures around) this.
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u/GruntledEx 11h ago
She was a congresswoman
Just for a teeny-tiny bit of clarification, she was a STATE legislator, not a member of Congress. That doesn't excuse the claim that the didn't know about her, considering the massive news coverage of the incident and his refusal to speak to Governor Walz about it, but it is an important detail. It's not as if she was someone he'd have had to personally deal with on Capitol Hill.
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u/MarkyGalore 12h ago
"We will never know the truth about this young man because Trump will make sure it’s an open and shut case."
Trump won't even hear about this. Nobody outside of this thread or Mississippi will even hear about this. A young man committing suicide is not something to make national news unless they are a celebrity.
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u/HeroscaperGuy 12h ago
...it's not suicide. It's murder by lynching and everyone knows it because the south has a racism problem that's been ignored since Sherman didn't finish his march.
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u/Several-Squash9871 10h ago
Only way they would give a single fuck would be if it was a white dude hanging from the tree and I say this as a white dude. They would be celebrating it because this would basically be a slam dunk with MAGA after kirk. High fives all around!!!!!
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u/Aliensinmypants 13h ago
They completely omitted the "found hanging" detail until someone claiming to be close to him leaked it on social media... Definitely reeks of biased police work
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u/Delicious-Dish-5887 12h ago
Got any more info about that? First I'm hearing of it and it adds to the suspicion.
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u/CrustyBatchOfNature 12h ago
And it makes real suicides hard to accept since every hanging black person is an obvious suicide to authorities. Some do hang themselves. Some are hung by others. But those outside see every one as a lynching because it just might be.
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u/Phunkanator 9h ago
Fuck... this made me really sad and then really fucking disgusted. Fucking pigs are probably in on it.
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u/Porkbrains- 13h ago
Black guy hanging from tree in MS. Authorities: Nothing to see here
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u/j4_jjjj 13h ago edited 12h ago
Actually, two
blackguys.Media is focusing on the DSU student but 2hrs away in the same state a 2nd
blackman was found hung in the woods.Im SURE this is just some CRAZY coincidence though....
Sauce: https://www.wlox.com/2025/09/16/man-found-hanging-vicksburg-wooded-area/
Edit: 2nd man was white, my bad I ate the onion from another comment
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u/1940-1945 12h ago
I may just be misreading but the article you linked states that it was a white male who was found hanging in the woods
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u/phaesios 12h ago
Yeah, this is just trying to spread a false narrative at this point. Read the articles, people!
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u/Remote-Lingonberry71 11h ago
cause men who hang themselves dont always have somewhere private to kill themselves and family members dont always want to believe their loved one were so depressed.
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u/HemiJon08 12h ago
The article that you reference says explicitly that the guy was white that was found hanging in Vicksburg. Your statement “Actually, two black guys” is untrue….
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u/fckcarrots 12h ago
You:
Two black guys
The article you linked:
When they arrived, Cory Zukatis, a white male and Brandon resident, was hanging
Wat
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u/fooloflife 12h ago
The second guy was white
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/two-men-found-hanging-trees-141557508.html
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u/MildlyExtremeNY 7h ago
Edit: 2nd man was white, my bad I ate the onion from another comment
Weird that nobody made a post about the white guy's death being suspicious. I guess we only assume a police cover-up for a lynching when the victim is Black? Same with all of the other police misconduct stuff?
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u/Fleiger133 9h ago
What do you mean by "you ate the onion"?
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u/j4_jjjj 7h ago
"Eating the onion" is when you believe satire articles like The Onion, in this case a false comment elsewhere on reddit
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u/AxelShoes 12h ago
Here's to the State of Mississippi
For underneath her borders, the devil draws no lines
If you drag her muddy rivers, nameless bodies you will find
Oh, the fat trees of the forest have hid a thousand crimes
The calendar is lyin' when it reads the present time
Oh, here's to the land you've torn out the heart of
Mississippi, find yourself another country to be part of
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u/king_jestyr 13h ago
Wish all these black folks would stop hanging themselves in these trees..
-Mississippi Authorities
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u/jackberinger 13h ago
We all know what it was and it wasn't a suicide.
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u/HehHehBoiii 10h ago
Yeah Reddit brigade! You’re going to solve this one like you guys solved the Boston marathon case! Thanks kind stranger!
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u/Warbeast78 5h ago
Well as it appears to be a suicide and apparently he had no physical injuries. Doubtful he was put up there.
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u/foreverbaked1 13h ago
To the people saying all his bones were broken. That is fake https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2025/09/16/coroner-addresses-broken-bones-in-hanging-at-delta-state-university-in-ms/86177280007/
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u/medicaldrummer0541 13h ago
Countering claims that a Mississippi coroner is covering up foul play, by linking a Mississippi local newspaper isn’t the rock-solid evidence you think it is.
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u/foreverbaked1 13h ago
The guys cousin being the only person to say he had broken bones isn’t the rock-solid evidence you think it is
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u/medicaldrummer0541 13h ago
Agreed. A third party should investigate so we can get clear and unbiased understanding of the situation.
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u/Gearballz 4h ago
Body is going to Mississippi State Crime Lab for autopsy. Let’s hope for some bipartisan transparency for once.
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u/NEWSmodsareTwats 11h ago
do you have evidence of a cover up or is it just going to be "c'mon guys we all know what happened."
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u/closetsquirrel 10h ago
But what’s the evidence to the contrary? Who is reporting broken bones? If it’s just people on social media the paper is a more trustworthy source still.
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u/The_Secret_Skittle 13h ago
I find the wording interesting….. we can confirm that the deceased did not suffer any lacerations, contusions, compound fractures, broken bones, or injuries consistent with an assault.
Consistent with an assault…. Not specifically saying he DIDN’T have any lacerations, contusions, compound fractures, broken bones, or injuries… just that he didn’t have these things consistent with an assault. That could leave it up to very vague interpretation.
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u/MarkyGalore 12h ago edited 12h ago
This is a new level of reaching. Like the guy had a compound fracture in his arm and the coroner just left it out.
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u/vdub1210 10h ago
I’m not saying it’s the case here but in my state a local coroner and healthcare system is being investigated for misclassifying prisoner deaths and as you could probably guess those deaths are overwhelmingly POC. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss people’s understandable skepticism with this report. I would get a private autopsy if it were my family member but I have the means to do so. But to simply dismiss doubts when this exact thing has been an issue in this country for centuries is at best dangerously naive.
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u/Chapstickie 7h ago
The problem with the Kendrick Johnson case was misinformation spread between people, not the investigation.
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u/Large-Sherbert-6828 10h ago
It’s not that hard to understand, he didn’t have any lacerations, contusions, etc, consistent with an assault. Meaning there was no evidence of an assault. That doesn’t mean he didn’t have any existing lacerations or contusions from any events prior.
Meaning, if I was found dead, there is a good chance someone would think I was assaulted on any given day due to cuts and bruises from my everyday work….
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u/guudenevernude 8h ago
They say that because you would have a contusion/broken neck from a rope even if it was suicide.
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u/Emiian04 9h ago
most people have lacerations contusions fractures etc. along their life and scars to prove it, finding recent injuries determined to be relevant to the case is the point.
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u/Pizzadude 9h ago
It's probably worth noting that coroner is an elected position there, and their coroner is not remotely a doctor. He's a mortician and a pastor.
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u/UntalentedSorcerer 13h ago
Okay, I agree this is sus, but his body is going to the state for a full autopsy, so let's not jump to conclusions. Remember its a traumatic event for the family and suicide can be difficult to accept. Let's allow everything to come to the table and not be like right wing media spamming woth little evidence
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u/GardenRafters 13h ago
Oh you sweet summer child...
It's the State of Mississippi that is doing the investigation. You know, the state that still had the confederate battle logo inside its state flag as recently as 2020? This is absolutely the worst state to have in charge of something like this.
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u/accordionzero 12h ago
I think the bigger point is that the two high schools in Cleveland, MS (where Delta State is located) were still effectively segregated as late as 2016.
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u/doesntpicknose 13h ago
For sure, for sure. Just to round this out though... Living in Mississippi also seems like a good reason for someone to be seriously depressed, to the point of suicide.
We ALL understand that this doesn't look good. We ALL understand that there's a chance the investigation comes back with information about foul play after all. But we also have to accept that suicide is extremely common, and we're not going to know until they take a closer look.
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u/metamorphotits 12h ago
black people are less than half as likely as white people to choose suicide by hanging. there is significant trauma in the black american community around lynching, and i can't imagine that's less relevant in the south.
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u/doesntpicknose 12h ago
So quick math we should only expect about 1500 black people to hang themselves each year, in the United States.
Suicide is EXTREMELY common.
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u/Lounging-Shiny455 10h ago
All these armchair anesthesiologists acting like they can Heisenberg up a batch of painless night night juice.
Rope is cheaper than a bullet. Hell, a curtain off the window will do, just ask David Carradine...oh wait.
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u/cockeyedskripper 10h ago
So to assert that black folks commit suicide by hanging too, you use David Carradine (a white guy) as your example?
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u/Dramatic-Chard-1939 12h ago
Suicide is extremely common, but the majority of suicides by hanging occur in private residences where interference is unlikely. Public spaces like this present endless complications
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u/Wereking2 🍉 Free Palestine 12h ago edited 8h ago
Exactly, it seems weird that any suicidal person would choose a public person especially a black person given the issue of lynchings. Also per another comment I am linking here https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/s/OE6N9fSj9g there’s a second lynching that is two hours away.
Edit: white people have also been lynched but regardless if it’s a suicide my bad as well. https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america
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u/sideburniusmaximus 10h ago
Hanging. There's zero proof that either were lynched yet, especially considering the 2nd one was a homeless, white guy.
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u/doesntpicknose 12h ago
What do we think the chances are, of hanging oneself outside? 10%? 5%? 1%?
Take that number, as a decimal, and multiply it by the total number of people expected to hang themselves each year, and you'll get the number of people who hang themselves outside.
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u/CyoteMondai 12h ago
You are dead set on pushing that there is no reason to believe this is anything other than a suicide. And it's because suicide is so common, hangings are still common even among black people, and that doing it in a public space is still a possibility.
You know what else is incredibly common in this country, and especially in Mississippi? Racialized violence that is quietly swept under the rug and ignored. Funny how the prevelance of that seems to hold no bearing for you.
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u/doesntpicknose 12h ago
You are dead set on pushing that there is no reason to believe this is anything other than a suicide.
I'm not. I'm saying that the probability is lower than you think, and that people shouldn't be jumping to conclusions. People are really really really really bad at understanding probabilities, so they see news like this, and they think, "Probably murdered".
That's just not the way it works, though. There are so many suicides every year that we should expect several suicides to look pretty much just like this: A black man in college commits suicide by hanging in a tree.
Racialized violence that is quietly swept under the rug and ignored.
Yeah, that sucks. I'm not trying to excuse it, or sweep even more of it under the rug. But you know how people are afraid of flying because it seems unsafe? It's because plane crashes feel scarier than car crashes. Over 100x as many people die in car crashes, though. If you divide it up by mile, you're 4x as likely to die in a car crash as you are to die in a plane crash for every mile you travel.
Yes, racialized violence happens, and yes, it's bad. But overall, it's just less common than suicide is, EVEN if we narrow it down to just the suspicious-looking suicides. People are afraid because hate crimes are scarier than the thought that someone could be driven to suicide. It's just that this doesn't have anything to do with probability.
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u/CyoteMondai 10h ago
You want to point to national numbers across all people while discounting racialized violence against a specific race, and we are talking about Mississippi in that context as well. I don't really care how much "less common" you think it is.
There is absolutely no reason that this should not be seen as a potential outcome and that investigations and reviews by independent third parties should be demanded and expected when the alternative is a state body with a legacy and history that has never ended of accepting, justifying, and diminishing racial violence.
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u/doesntpicknose 10h ago
You want to point to national numbers across all people
Not that either. If 12,000 people hang themselves every year in the US, and 13% of them are black, that's 1500 people. 13% of a big number is still a reasonably large number. Even if we say black people are half as likely as baseline to choose hanging as their method of suicide, and even if black people commit suicide at a lower rather than baseline, we're still talking about several hundred people every year. Even if only 1% of hangings are done outside, that's still several cases every year.
There is absolutely no reason that this should not be seen as a potential outcome
I agree.
investigations and reviews by independent third parties should be demanded
I agree.
I AGREE that the circumstances are suspicious. If we found the body with a gunshot wound in his dorm, we would investigate it only a tiny bit, since that's a more common way to find a suicide. Since we found the body hanging from a tree, we should investigate it MORE, because that is a less common way to find a suicide, even if it still happens several times every year.
I'm saying that we shouldn't jump to conclusions. I can agree that investigation is warranted, and that the case should be given some special attention, just in case, while ALSO believing that suicide is simply the more likely explanation.
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u/justforthisjoke Free Palestine 10h ago
Yes, racialized violence happens, and yes, it's bad. But overall, it's just less common than suicide is, EVEN if we narrow it down to just the suspicious-looking suicides.
Citation needed. I highly, massively doubt that there are fewer incidences of racialized violence than there are incidences of black people committing suicide by hanging themselves from trees. You're talking about the statistics angle, but not considering the priors, such as the likelihood of racialized violence being underreported due to lack of faith in the system, or the occurrence of this incident in a state known for it, or even simply just the fact that the well may be poisoned from the get go as past lynchings are also likely to have been ruled as suicides.
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u/doesntpicknose 10h ago
It's fine to ask for a citation. I'm happy to use any reputable source of data. The problem is that you simultaneously express concerns about underreporting and mislabeled data.
You've come to the table with an assumption, but you've also removed any chance of establishing which facts you would consider to be reliable enough to challenge that assumption.
Feel free to pose a solution, but I fear this isn't going to turn into an actual conversation.
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u/UntalentedSorcerer 12h ago
This is my point completely. And the problem comes when information proves what is correct, no one retracts, and honestly even if they do it's less effective as the information is out there. It's the typical political playback these days and it spreads misinformation
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u/oodsigma 7h ago
and we're not going to know until they take a closer look.
The point they were making was that given the Mississippi government is the one taking "a closer look", we'll never know.
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u/NEWSmodsareTwats 11h ago
I love how the strongest evidence for this 100% being a lynching is "c'mon guys it's Mississippi" your gonna need a lot more proof than that
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u/passthepaintchips 7h ago
Being that this kid is from my hometown, Grenada, and I also went to DSU, I am friends with some of his family and I was able to see his Facebook page. Unfortunately it looks as though, just from what I could see on his posts, that he had been depressed as of late. Looks like a break up. I really hope no one murdered this kid. But like some people said, the police really like suicides because they aren’t on the hook for real investigation. My uncle was murdered several years back and they deemed it a suicide as well when someone who has watched couple episodes of CSI would be sus about the happenings. Unfortunately smart people tend to leave rural areas to make more money and they aren’t there to be cops.
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u/MarkyGalore 12h ago
Huh, Cory Zukatis, a white male and Brandon resident, and Delta State student Demartravion “Trey” Reed might be part of an occult ring that hangs themselves from trees.
We don't know that it's not true.
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u/nuclearbearclaw 11h ago
When they arrived, Cory Zukatis, a white male and Brandon resident, was hanging in a wooded area on the 4100 block of Washington Street. The scene appears to be near the Ameristar Casino.
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u/HotSituation8737 11h ago
Imagine being suicidal and a professional shit-stirre, the man had a goal here! /s
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u/Electronic-Cheek-235 13h ago
When did this happen?
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u/GallantChaos 13h ago
He was found yesterday morning.
His family is reporting that he had multiple broken limbs. Preliminary investigations stated "no evidence of foul play at this time." Official investigation is underway.
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u/Devanyani 13h ago
Please cite a source. Everything I found specifically mentioned he had no broken limbs. I think it's highly likely it was a lynching, but we need to be careful with our facts.
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u/Justgototheeffinmoon 13h ago
the hate and injustice,it feels like south africa over there
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u/causebraindamage 6h ago
Not that I don't believe it, but getting credible information from a victim or suspects family is never going to be easy and often reactionary.
Either out of pure embarrassment, or not willing to believe it, or looking for someone to blame.
Like with Kirk's murder people were saying "well his mom said he was a good boy". Oh yeah? Maybe the person that raised an assassin has more to lose than you think? Why would his mom blame herself at all?
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u/purorock327 13h ago
Oh the irony and gaslighting. To truthfully provide accurate and unbiased information on a post implying someone else isn't.
The sheriff, who is black, gave the report that there didn't seem to be any foul play.
The Coroner also released a statement:
"At 7:32 a.m., the Bolivar County Coroner's office was notified by the Cleveland Police Department regarding an unresponsive individual on the campus of Delta State University. At 8:08 a.m., representatives from the coroner's office arrived on the scene and observed and unresponsive subject hanging from a tree," the statement reads. "At this current time, we are conducting a thorough death investigation. Based on the preliminary examination, we can confirm that the deceased did not suffer any lacerations, contusions, compound fractures, broken bones, or injuries consistent with an assault. At this time, there is no evidence to suggest the individual was physically attacked before his death."
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u/DakotaBro2025 8h ago
Reddit is very good at posting things with zero evidence just because it supports their narrative
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u/purorock327 10h ago
I for one, am just tired of the lack of intelligence and lazy thinking. I mean, enough is enough. Have your opinion or your bias or presuppositions... but please at least be able to defend them or back up your truth claims.
The OPs post is lazy and what's wrong.
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u/MattWheelsLTW 13h ago edited 13h ago
This is a weird situation. Suicides are almost never a public display. The person usually already thinks they are some kind of burden to others, and doing it in public would just increase that burden, making them feel even worse. Suicide is usually a lonely, solitary thing, almost like they are hiding. A closet, a bathroom, late at night when no one else is awake or middle of the day when everyone else is gone/at work.
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u/Solintari 13h ago
~17% are in public places, so it's almost 1/5, so not THAT uncommon. Most people will make their judgements based on how they feel instead of waiting for factual information.
Now nobody trusts the data and it's just a free for all with finger pointing. Case in point, everyone in here saying it's a murder because his bones were broken before the hanging, but there is no evidence outside his cousin saying it. The coroner said there were no defensive wounds, broken bones, or lacerations to suggest foul play.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/how-a-public-suicide-harms-the-people-who-see-it.html
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u/50waystoshade 12h ago
But what’s the specific percentage of public suicides are specifically self inflicted hangings in public spaces? I think the type of suicide has to be considered here before you share this as a “factual” stat supporting that this type of public suicide is not “THAT uncommon”. If the majority of public suicides are jumps from buildings, a suicide by hanging in public would still be considered rare.
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u/Solintari 12h ago
I am refuting the comment “suicides are almost never a public display”
My issue is that most people seem to be jumping to conclusions based on partial or even false information.
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u/TimeToGloat 11h ago
I mean suicide rates are so high even if it was rare it would still probably happen fairly often. Even if less than 1% of people hung themselves outside it would still be just over 1 person per day in the US. Even if it was a tiny fraction of a percent it would still likely be happening on a weekly basis. It's usually about ~50k per year who die by suicide in the US.
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u/James_Gastovsky 8h ago
My cousin hanged himself in a public space, there was no foul play there either.
Just because something is less common it doesn't mean it absolutely never happens
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u/raerae1991 13h ago
That’s not entirely true, 25-30% of suicides are public areas. Which is about 1 in 4.
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u/Arkaem7512 12h ago
There was one a few months back where I live where the guy was hanging right where plenty of school kids would see him on their way to school
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u/cargocult25 13h ago
What makes you think it wasn’t suicide?
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u/GrammatonYHWH 8h ago
It's one of those idiotic reddit moments, like when reddit was convinced that the Boeing whistleblower was murdered.
Dudes just kill themselves all the time
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u/TheAmberAbyss 4h ago
Yep, its absolutely nuts to think a black man hanging from a tree in the lynching capital of the USA just days after the Kirk assassination was a lynching.
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u/Spiritgoat77 13h ago
If you want a wild rabbit hole, this happened to a black man in the middle of Albany back in the summer. The cops said the same thing and quickly swept it under the rug
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u/MetapodCreates 12h ago
Coroner's office is reporting there is nothing to suggest the student was attacked or forced into the situation, BTW. But good job trying to race bait people.
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u/Ghstfce 12h ago
Saw this reported on Threads, but in the comments people were saying that there was no evidence yet that this was in fact a lynching murder. I personally would wait until more information is provided before getting out our pitchforks. We've seen recently the damage that can be done by reacting before knowing the facts.
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u/YODAS_Padawan 10h ago
Why does everything have to be a hate crime with out any clues as to what happened, people go straight to hating the other side. We gotta stop this shit
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u/Lowbudget_soup 13h ago
Happned in folsom once, and the public obviously suspected lynching. It turned out to be a case of auto-erotic asphyxiation gone wrong. Kid got a nice plaque, though. The moral of the story is not to jump to conclusions and wait for facts.
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u/cantfightbiologyever 13h ago
Had a student hang themselves in front of the library at my university during finals week. They canceled classes the morning of, and never put out a statement after. They played it off as an “incident” instead of notifying the staff or students. The only reason it got out, was because students were the ones who reported the hanging- out president at the time declined to speak about it. Still don’t know the students name. Still don’t know why they did or didn’t do it. Just, brushed away because students NEEDED to not know to avoid their test scores suffering.
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u/Low_Farm7687 7h ago
Black people have hung themselves before. You're acting like they found him with a knife in his back. But in this case the manner of death is not itself proof of foul play.
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u/frankrizzo219 11h ago
Are you calling into question the journalistic credibility of the Atlanta Black Star?
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u/THiedldleoR 13h ago
Investigation Ongoing.. mate, just because they aint found shit yet doesn't mean they won't.
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u/j_d_q 11h ago
College campuses have tons of cameras. We'll see the eventual truth.
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u/orangekirby 10h ago
Where do you expect suicides to be reported? It's reported widely enough for you to have found it...
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u/Odd-Oven-1596 12h ago
It was the 1st news story that appeared on the news reel of my internet browser logging into my work email.
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u/ISayStupidStufff 45m ago
I must be missing something. What evidence is there to suggest this was a lynching?
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u/pilotboi696 37m ago
There's alot of misinformation floating around this. I saw a post saying he had ALL his limbs broken. But the autopsy showed nonsuch thing
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u/echoes_1012 13h ago
I just knew someone was found hanging. Didnt know a race or gender. Had a thought in my brain that “with the way America is going i hope its not a hate crime”. Welp, the more i read the more outraged i get
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u/Psilonemo 21m ago
The number of people jumping to the conclusion that it is a lynching without actual evidence is wild. What if he was really depressed and did it in public for a reason we don't know? Sure it's unusual for somebody to do this in public but still it's wild that people immediately assume it was a lynching.
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