• Lavender [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    18 days ago
    CW discussion of suicide.

    As a Black person who sometimes had ideations, I was against methods that could resemble a lynching because of the traumatic history and the impact it would have on my community to see something like that. Of course an institution like the police would rule this as a suicide out of hand.

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      18 days ago

      [hug]

      suicide

      as someone who has many years full of ideations and some attempts. I’m hindsight it is insane how much mental energy we put in other to make out passing the least disruptive to other people. like in hindsight, why would we care, but we did.

      i want to physically strangle someone whenever I hear that doing that is selfish.

  • The police are extremely averse to investigating any death that could feasibly be a suicide, and I’d imagine that’s even more salient when the victim is a minority. I’ve heard second-hand stories of this happening in my town under even more suspicious circumstances, they will do literally anything to avoid extra work.

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      It probably also doesn’t help their image to leave a possible murder unsolved, and a lot of those go unsolved as it is. To admit that there was a lynching and you either can’t make progress or don’t think it’s worth the necessary police resources has to be bad PR.

      Also sometimes they’re clearly covering for the perpetrator, as when BLM got somewhat decapitated by exactly this method, hanging and all.

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    according to the police it was suicide.

    we should trust them, because it’s highly likely the police were involved in suiciding him.