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It's insane to me that there have been so many cases of black people found hanging recently and they've pretty much all been brushed off.

There's something wrong with the world when a children's entertainer needs to ask the country to bother caring about it.

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[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

We don’t have any information because the cops ruled it a suicide and didn’t look for any information.

[-] VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Or there just isn't any information because it actually was suicide

Again, one of them the family agrees probably was suicide. One of them the family admits that the victim was being bullied and so suicide is a strong possibility. One of them is probably murder there just isn't enough evidence to prove it. The fourth case was so new we didn't even have a name

The other four we have no information on. It's not that the police don't have any information, we, the people of lemmy, don't have any information on them. All we know is that the police ruled it suicide. We have zero evidence that the police didn't investigate or that there were signs of a struggle and the police covered it up... all we know is the police said, "suicide"

Which isn't all that shocking because according to the CDC about 12,000 people a year commit suicide by hanging themselves. You don't think any of those people are ever black?

And even if there were signs of a struggle that the police ignored we still have zero evidence that the murderer is white. Black people can't hang each other? Hispanic people can't hang black people?

It's ironically racist to just assume that it had to be something only a white person could have done. Like saying every time you hear a story of someone getting shot you just assume the trigger man is black. Doesn't matter what color you skin is, people are people. Anybody could have done this, including the victim themselves

So the only way this matters is if it turns out all four of the remaining cases turned out to be racially motivated murders committed by a white person but even then, it's four people across 8 months over the entirely of the United States... not exactly the kind of thing that needs nation wide attention

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