Posted on 03/20/2015 7:58:11 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
An FBI agent appealed for patience Friday after a black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, saying 30 federal, state and local agents were working intensively to determine whether he was killed or committed suicide.
"Everybody wants answers and wants them quickly. We understand that," FBI Special Agent Don Alway told a crowd outside the Claiborne County Courthouse. "We are going to hold off on coming to any conclusions until the facts take us to a definitive answer."
The county coroner confirmed that the man found hanging from a white sheet Thursday was Otis Byrd, an ex-convict reported missing by his family more than two weeks ago. Byrd lived just 200 yards from the spot where his body was found, in a wooded area off a dirt road that ran behind his house.
Alway said investigators are interviewing Byrd's family and friends and searching his rental home and a storage unit for clues, and will not reveal any evidence along the way.
"We are trying to paint a picture of Byrd's life. We are trying to find out what was going on with him personally and professionally," he said.
Claiborne County Sheriff Marvin Lucas Sr. told The Associated Press earlier Friday that Byrd did not appear to have stepped off of anything in the area where he was found hanging from a tree limb about 12 feet high. His feet were dangling about two feet off the ground, and his hands were not bound, Lucas said.
"Life matters," Lucas told the crowd. "I commit to you, as the sheriff of Claiborne County, that I will not allow the shadows of the past to cast a shadow on the future."
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Leni
Exactly who is sick?
” I will not allow the shadows of the past to cast a shadow on the future.””
whattya think? do sheriffs often make such “poetic” statements?
that reads like it was written for em by the Just Us Department!
Sheriff Lucas was elected President of the NAACP of Claiborne County Local Branch # 5273 in 2010.
Sheriff Lucas was elected to the position of Sheriff of Claiborne County in 2011
http://claibornecountysheriff.org/history_view.php?id=0
Another Sandy Hook angle. They didn’t find an NRA/Tea Party/republican killer then but hey, this admin. will have to try again...
Shouldnt the lynchers be wearing the sheet and using rope to do the deed?
Obama administration will jump on this regardless of the cause...it fits their agenda.
Oops, my bad. LOL!
“Byrd did not appear to have stepped off of anything “
“Suicide does not fit the desired narrative.”
SO IT WOULD SEEM.
I wonder if the FBI was called in when Byrd murdered a white woman for $101? Was he investigated for violations of her Civil Rights? I already know the answers...just being my old sarcastic self.
Not every murder is a lynching. In fact, depending on your definition, it’s been 50 to 60 years since the last true lynching.
One of the local tv stations in my area opened up the nightly news this evening with the story of the black guy getting beaten in Virginia and the next story was the black guy found hanging in Mississippi. No story about the white guy in Philly walking his dog getting murdered by young, black males. Hmmm....I wonder if the lib media has an agenda? (snicker)
When’s the last time you saw a headline about a murderded “white man?”
And the beat goes on
The media is going to get their race war if it’s the last thing they do.
Obama wants chaos. I wouldn’t doubt that the hanging was done by hired thugs.
Ahhh, how about the tree branch.
They are going to do everything humanly possible to start one, that is for damn sure.
From the article : “It’s too early in the process to speculate, but “based on the history in Mississippi” of racial hate crimes, we are always concerned when an African-American is found hung in a tree in this state.
From an article 10+ years ago:
The last recorded lynching in Mississippi occurred 40 years ago when eight masked men dragged a black man from a county prison and hanged him just days before he was due to go on trial for raping a white woman.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96223
He killed a women and served 25 years in prison. I posted an article.
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