A Black Man Was Found Hanging From a Tree--Residents Don't Buy That It Was a Suicide.

Isn't that in a very white so cal area?


no way it was suicide...fucking cops should do their jobs and investigate

It’s the “city” closest to my little rural town.
And it’s known for some major white supremacist activity.

I used to work a couple of blocks away from this park.
No way there aren’t cameras.

Source: datausa.io

Out of all the suicide options for a young black man to kill himself, he would choose lynching?

You can lynch somebody with rocks.

Hanging is prototypical, but not required.

Lynching is killing by a mob that seeks to enforce their extrajudicial assumptions of guilt. It's assumed that the man at the root of the Tulsa riots would have been lynched if the police hadn't defended him against the mob (and smuggle him out of town), for instance. His guilt was presumed, there was a mob demanding justice, and the only thing that was missing from a lynching was the mob's killing the poor guy.

Lynching is, at its heart, a denial of due process fueled by a crowd demanding justice entirely on its terms. The mob demands (its) justice so it hears the accusation, assigns guilt, prescribes the sentence, and then carries it out. Laws? Mob rule.

The earliest lynchings were extrajudicial punishments, but not killing. A mob catches the allegedly guilty person, denies due process, and punishes him by tar and feathering him or burning down his house? That would have been a lynching early in the word's history. Obligatory death came decades later.

But

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-investigates-willie-andrew-jones-jr-hanging-black-man-tree-mississippi/ in 2018. Willie Andrew Jones Jr.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-atlanta-hanging-20160708-snap-story.html in 2016. Story lists some antecedents, all of which were suspected but failed the evidence test.

For example, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/federal-authorities-investigate-death-black-man-hanging-tree-mississippi in 2015, Otis Byrd.


Oddly, I can't recall, even vaguely, an instance of a white or Latino or Asian's hanging that made the national news enough for me to turn to the old Google like happened with a couple of the links above. Were they reported and I just didn't care because they weren't black? Were they not reported? Do whites or Latinos or Asians commit suicide by hanging? I assume the answer is "not reported except maybe sometimes locally; I wouldn't have cared; suicide by hangings happen.

(But I can remember, vaguely, a number of missing white blond kids, usually girls, and one missing black kid notable mostly because he (she?) was a counterfoil to all the missing white blond kids. Just an observation, on that makes me wonder about the fears that reporters play on and how they vary.)

Otherwise, not a cat in hell's chance.

Leave a suicide note although most people believe it to be a common occurrence. I agree with the poster who said to check for surveillance videos.

His phone or computer would also provide a few clues had he been despondent to the point of suicide.

A tree at the courthouse just seems like a very odd place for it. It's much more in keeping with lynching.

There's no appetite by that city to find out what actually happened and I have a lot of skepticism about the Los Angeles County Sheriffs. How sad.

This is a scandal, not a suicide. How the Sheriff's office cavalierly suggested this was a suocide needs to be investigated.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-12/investigation-ongoing-after-young-black-man-found-hanging-from-tree-in-palmdale

The discovery of a 24-year-old Black man hanging from a tree near Palmdale City Hall this week has sparked alarm in the Antelope Valley as investigators try to determine whether his death was caused by suicide or if foul play was involved.

A passerby spotted the man’s body at 3:39 a.m. Wednesday in the 38300 block of 9th Street East, according to authorities. Emergency personnel responded and determined that the man — identified as Robert Fuller — was dead, authorities said.

Lt. Kelly Yagerlener of the Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner’s office said the death was initially reported as an apparent suicide, but a decision on the cause of death is deferred pending an investigation. A full autopsy is planned.

“Investigators have been in contact with Mr. Fuller’s family and are continuing their investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr. Fuller’s death,” Palmdale officials wrote in a statement
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Palmdale is a suburb of Los Angeles...located about 25 miles northeast of L.A. This is real. This story is at multiple locations on the internet.