Posted on 03/20/2015 6:35:47 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Federal authorities are investigating the grisly discovery of the body of a man found hanging by a bed sheet Thursday morning...
Local officers were searching for Otis James Byrd, a 54-year-old black man, who vanished on March 2.
....it remained unclear whether the death was a homicide or a suicide, but he confirmed that the man "had a bed sheet tied around his neck."
....Byrd spent just over 25 years in prison for the Feb. 1980 murder of Lucille Trim in Claiborne County, according to Mississippi Department of Corrections records cited by the Clarion-Ledger newspaper. The records show he robbed her of $101.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Last night, CNN was rife with race-based implications--not much discussion, apparently, about the fact that this guy MURDERED SOMEONE and could have made enemies in prison. Or, that he committed suicide. Nope. Just leap to that "hate crime" (all murder is hate, by the way) meme.
which leftist wag was was it who said...” Never let a Suicide go to waste”
Oh, boy - here we go...
Just another way to stoke the fire--the media is sooo obedient to the meme.
Oh no......
/sigh
Just a guess but if he was really hanged they would have used a rope as a symbol. The bed sheet leads me to a suicide.
Never mind that, it fits the narrative.
Mississippi Ping:
He went to Vicksburg lost everything at a casino came home and hang himself. case closed
” Claiborne County, about 50 miles southeast of Jackson near the Louisiana border”
Unless my memory of Mississippi geography has changed, Claiborne County is southWEST of Jackson and Louisiana is to the west. Southeast would take you to Jackson County and east to Alabammy.
But quibbling aside, Otis Byrd’s life was not wasted. In death, he can become a rallying cry for the new unCivil Rights crusade.
James Byrd was the name of the guy dragged to his death behind a pickup truck in Texas in 1998. Odd coincidence.
FWIW who would bring a bedsheet, likely full of DNA, to a lynching?
Bed sheet and former prisoner for 25 years leads me to suspect suicide.
Of course, the media/Libs will be hoping for a more sinister development. A KKK or VRWC or radicalized Christian would be icing on the cake for the media/Libs.
Those were Governor McAuliffe’s storm troopers stomping that man.
I’m still here in Ms and the geography is still the same.
Not sure about every thing else.
oh, noooo,
It had to be white, tea party former military Christians wearing white sheets.
I thought that was weird as well.
Is that a local news report? Or are you joking around?
If true, it’ll take MONTHS for the Team Obama and the media (but I repeat myself) to report that fact.
Yeah, I remembered that name, too.
Of course, Byrd is a pretty common last name.
This is the daughter of the woman he murdered in the ‘80s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Rainville
Yep that is the standard KKK M.O.
Amen! Fitting the narrative is what is important. The truth and facts be dammed.
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