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"Proficient swimmer": Tafari Campbell drowning death while paddleboarding comes under scrutiny
SK POP ^ | Jul 27, 2023 | Karishma Rao

Posted on 07/27/2023 8:55:36 AM PDT by george76

Netizens are questioning news reports that claimed that Tafari Campbell died from a paddleboarding accident. The 45-year-old worked as a personal chef to former US president Barack Obama. He died during his recent trip to Martha’s Vineyard. Internet users are finding it hard to believe that he died due to the water sport considering his proficiency in swimming..

Tafari Campbell was visiting Massachusetts Island from his Virginia home. He went missing in the Edgartown Great Pond waters on Sunday. Police endlessly searched for the food connoisseur until they received a call about a male paddleboarder who had reportedly “gone into the water.”

The police announced that they were told that Campbell:

“appeared to briefly struggle to stay on the surface, and then submerged.” Their statement went on to add that Tafari Campbell was accompanied by another person who “observed him go under the water.”

The chef’s body was found eight feet underwater. It was also noted that he was not wearing a life jacket.

Law enforcement announced that the Obama family was not present at their residence at the time of Campbell’s accident.

Since news of Campbell’s passing broke online, netizens are finding it difficult to believe that he died from a paddleboarding incident as his Instagram account proved that he was a “proficient swimmer.”

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Don't listen to anyone telling you Obama’s chef, Tafari Campbell, couldn't swim

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The Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit had announced that Campbell’s death remains under investigation


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KEYWORDS: arkanicide; democrats; massachusetts; obama; water; whatdidhehear; whatdidhesee
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Well the Obama girls were certainly there. There were pictures of them leaving from the Vineyard airport the next day.


61 posted on 07/27/2023 9:58:26 AM PDT by surrey
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To: george76
Their statement went on to add that Tafari Campbell was accompanied by another person who “observed him go under the water”.

There was a time when a real reporter would have located and spoke with person.

Either way, a black chick I work totally discounts the narrative. She told me blacks just don't paddleboard.

62 posted on 07/27/2023 9:59:17 AM PDT by CodeJockey
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To: george76

“It’s pretty simple. he slipped on the paddleboard and his head bounced 8 or ten times on it, thus breaking his skull in 5 places while his shark speargun went off repeatedly into his back.”

~ Barry


63 posted on 07/27/2023 9:59:17 AM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: george76

the worse part in the reporting is

” someone saw him enter the water...
wut?
is it saw him get on the paddleboard in the water?

or saw him “drowning”? who stands by and watches a person drown?


64 posted on 07/27/2023 10:00:02 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (WHEN 💎GOING THROUGH HELL KEEP GOING💎 IF IT DOESNT KILL YOU politicalILL MAKE YOU STRONGER💎)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Same with the Bidens.


65 posted on 07/27/2023 10:00:47 AM PDT by occamrzr06
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To: All

Obama daughters spotted hurriedly flying off M/V after Tafari's death.

66 posted on 07/27/2023 10:00:59 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: george76

“Police endlessly searched for the food connoisseur until they received a call about a male paddleboarder who had reportedly “gone into the water.”

So they were searching for him UNTIL a call was received a paddleboarder had gone in the water


67 posted on 07/27/2023 10:02:56 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: cuz1961

An Excellent point… high or drunk is my guess. An athlete drowns in 8 feet of water? In a pond? Explains the secrecy.


68 posted on 07/27/2023 10:03:21 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: Ann Archy
"I BET they didn’t do an autopsy!"

I don't know if this has been confirmed, but, yesterday there was something that said the O's asked for the autopsy be done by their coroner? Who has their own coroner?

Strange story.

🤔

69 posted on 07/27/2023 10:03:43 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: Ann Archy

He told his wife he was going to steam some clams (one of his favorite meals as I recall), take a shower, and go to bed. That evening the wind was breezy and he went out on the water — in a canoe.

Yep, a lot of very strange circumstances around this one.


70 posted on 07/27/2023 10:08:11 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

Maybe—he knew too much to live?


71 posted on 07/27/2023 10:12:47 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: Blurb2350
History repeating:"

Fifty years ago this weekend, Australia’s most powerful man, Prime Minster Harold Holt, went missing during a lunchtime swim.

On December 17, 1967, the PM dived into the sea off Cheviot Beach, near his holiday home in Portsea, Victoria, just like he had done many times in the past. But this time the 59-year-old keen swimmer never came home.

A massive search operation failed to find any sign of him, and he was pronounced “presumed dead”* days late

72 posted on 07/27/2023 10:20:03 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I was a lifeguard for years in my youth and have rescued maybe a dozen people, most of whom could swim. The truth is that some people just lose their presence of mind when they encounter an unexpected situation the water, and in their panic they even forget how to swim or save themselves.


73 posted on 07/27/2023 10:22:59 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: PUGACHEV

You’re right...Had the same experience....kinda lost my bearings. Next thing I knew I was laying on the side of the pool. The lifeguard was really alert. The next week, I received my Life Saving Certificate.


74 posted on 07/27/2023 10:29:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: george76

Because he was wrapped in chains, the conclusion was he was attempting to steal more chains than he could swim with.


75 posted on 07/27/2023 10:41:13 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: george76

Any time anyone connected with elitist leftists dies, it’s under suspicious circumstances.


76 posted on 07/27/2023 10:42:31 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

He supposedly knew how to swim.

No swimmer wears a life jacket in a swimming pool.


77 posted on 07/27/2023 10:44:37 AM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: jpp113

You mean just like three Obama butt buddies who died under mysterious circumstances in Chicago just before he announced his run for President?


78 posted on 07/27/2023 10:44:50 AM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: george76

Fort Marcy park must already be filled...


79 posted on 07/27/2023 10:45:21 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: SERKIT

I did read that Obama and Michelle were in town just not at the house conveniently.


80 posted on 07/27/2023 10:53:49 AM PDT by vivenne
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