Unfortunately, due to the circumstances, the current climate in this country and the history, many questions have been raised that need answering. Since we seldom watch corporate news I do not know if this was given any coverage. My impression was that it was not.

I post this to raise awareness. Hopefully we will be hearing followups quickly on these deaths. (7 minutes)

Note that at @ 3:45 Representative Benny Thompson called for the FBI to investigate. That seems perfunctory given that the current FBI under Pam Bondi and Kash Patel seems to have been fully politicized and incapable of investigating much these days. 

In a report from NBC news the NAACP expressed skepticism of law enforcements version of the students death:

The death of a 21-year-old Black student whose body was found hanging from a tree on a university campus in Mississippi has sparked outrage and allegations online, even after officials said there was no evidence of foul play.

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Yet, that has not prevented people from calling for justice for Reed on social media and circulating unsubstantiated allegations regarding his death.

The NAACP on Tuesday expressed skepticism of the possibility Reed died by suicide in such a manner.

“You’d have to excuse our skepticism amidst growing racially motivated violence targeted at our communities across this nation,” the country’s oldest civil rights group said Tuesday on Instagram in a post with a picture that read, “A man was lynched yesterday.”

“So while we await more formal autopsy reports and information, we offer this piece of history with a level of certainty: Our people have not historically hung ourselves from trees,” the post caption read.

Let us pray we are not descending back to the Jim Crow era.