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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.
Statements of the utterly deranged
Can't it also be a suicide?
How come?
Basic situational understanding.
Your situational awareness is saying that there's no way this could've been a suicide, even though suicide is unfortunately not rare
Use your fucking brain.
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
Sure.
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.
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.