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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Police, for what that's worth, said

Which would be about "nothing" without independent confirmation.

If you still have any trust in the press releases of American cops, let alone those of the worst of ALL states in 2025, you're fucking delusional.

You're right about not jumping to CONCLUSIONS, but you're dead wrong about having even a modicum of trust in the statements of Mississippi cops before we reach any.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A black man found hanging from a tree: no foul play suspected

Statements of the utterly deranged

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Basic situational understanding.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your situational awareness is saying that there's no way this could've been a suicide, even though suicide is unfortunately not rare

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It sounds like you don't really have anything to say it couldn't have been a suicide. You just don't think it was. Which is different, my friend

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's why I mentioned that the family is rightfully seeking an independent autopsy report. And my whole last paragraph about how fucked up the whole situation is.

I'm just saying we can't and shouldn't be calling it a lynching yet, even if the signs are pointing in that direction. We should absolutely be raising questions and bullying the cops to an acceptable answer.

[–] tamman2000@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The standard of evidence for calling it a lynching outside of a court of law has been met IMO.

Let's call a spade a spade.