I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage. They’re trying to pass this off as a suicide.

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    No one has any public evidence one way or another. Its all circumstantial.

    Mississippi is the least transparent state in the Union. There is no legal mechanism to compel the Mississippi police to release any documentation on this death. This is also the deep south where lynching were common a generation or two ago and cop were open Klan members.

    We are going back to the old ways in this country. This might be a symptom of that.

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      Lynching hasn’t been “common” in over 70 years. The Klan hasn’t been prominent in 40-50 years there.

      There is zero reason based on what we have for evidence right now to suspect police were involved in the crime or are covering this up.

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        There is zero reason based on what we have for evidence right now to suspect police were involved in the crime or are covering this up.

        Agreed.

        The bigger issue is Mississippi’s complete lack of transparency with these things which degrades public trust. That is going to leave a lot to public speculation. This podcast talks about it: https://revealnews.org/mississippi-goddam-2/

        (I’m sure there is a more concise article somewhere, but this was a good podcast and I cannot be bothered)