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Christine Lemmer-Webber 馃寑
@cwebber@social.coop  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Fuck. A black man was found lynched on a Mississippi campus today https://www.fox13memphis.com/education/delta-state-university-student-found-hanging-from-tree-no-foul-play-suspected-officials-say/article_f5278a0a-0b0f-47c6-b829-a8cffc78a75e.html

"No foul play suspected" what the fuck, what the fuck

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estelle
@estelle@mstdn.social replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span cwebber yep, foul play

and if that's what the cops are saying, well then, this informs us about how bold the cops in memphis feel

(although yeah, i'd kinda suspected that anyway)

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Log 馃
@log@mastodon.sdf.org replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span cwebber It's 1860 and 1940 all at once here.
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Todd Knarr
@tknarr@mstdn.social replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span cwebber I think the cops there need new uniforms. White ones that don't require trousers. This is way past "Fuck that." territory and into what my grandfather would've termed "Take 'em up the holler.".
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Top Totty
@Geri@mastodon.online replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span cwebber I can't access this in the UK fuckung hell
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Chip Unicorn
@Chip_Unicorn@im-in.space replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span cwebber

Fuck. Fuck. FUCK.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber 馃寑
@cwebber@social.coop replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

A quote from someone (not verified) claiming to be the lynched student's cousin:

> "She said she seen the reports and it said that he was beaten and bruised. Both his arms were broken and he had a broken leg. I'm gonna let y'all do the math."

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/who-was-demartravion-trey-reed-delta-state-university-students-body-found-hanging-from-tree-on-campus-101757968887409.html

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SubductionRheology
@SubductionRheology@cyberplace.social replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span cwebber Very strange, when I search "Demartravion Reed" on [Startpage.com](http://Startpage.com) (which pulls from the Google search index) there are no relevant results. When I search with [duckduckgo.com](http://duckduckgo.com) I get local coverage plus a range of national coverage. I don't directly query [Google.com](http://Google.com) but someone who doesn't mind their tracking should try it.
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Coach Spore Diesel
@springdiesel@spore.social replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

My white friends may not realize how rare it is for a Black person to use hanging as a means of suicide. For this reason. I don't buy what the cops are selling.

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Artemis
@artemis@dice.camp replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago

uspol, lynching, no a literal one

@span cwebber
Watch everyone who was talking about "political violence" just moments ago shut the hell up & ignore this.

I don't have words to express the grief & rage this makes me feel, but at least I know there have been too many lives lost already. It has to end. We have to end it.

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xyhhx :PunkFelix:
@xyhhx@438punk.house replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span cwebber holy shit
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xyhhx :PunkFelix:
@xyhhx@438punk.house replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span cwebber wtf does no foul play mean? they are trying to claim he killed himself?
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antimagic heart-sickness
@apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises replied  路  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@span xyhhx @span cwebber they simply didn't consider it foul
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