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Family of Georgia Black Man Found Hanging From Tree Wants Answers
The Daily Beast ^ | May 11, 2015 | Samantha Allen

Posted on 05/14/2015 2:11:05 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 05/14/2015 2:11:06 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Just a thought...This man’s suicide could also have been his ultimate activist statement, however false, in that it was meant to cause mass-suspicion of a hate crime. He may have thought that he’d found a way to add meaning to his death but unless proof is found either way, he was just another poor soul who decided to end it all.


2 posted on 05/14/2015 2:28:17 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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"With tensions between police and local black communities soaring across the country in the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray, Champion’s family sought to make it clear that he did not attempt to evade questioning."

Didn't take 'em long to rescind Trayvon's halo

3 posted on 05/14/2015 2:55:46 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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quick on the draw ...

Within a couple of sentences, I immediately thought of the symbolism of Martin Luther Drive and hanging black man

4 posted on 05/14/2015 2:58:15 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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Mark


5 posted on 05/14/2015 3:02:49 AM PDT by lordpumblechook
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No, it didn’t. One wonders where is all the soul searching, hand wringing images of violent times past with respect to years’ recent polar bear victims. One dead old man outside a bowling alley in the Northwest comes to mind.


6 posted on 05/14/2015 3:03:04 AM PDT by Gaffer
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This man’s suicide could also have been his ultimate activist statement

I really don't think so. He would have put a bag over his head, put on handcuffs, hit himself a few times - lots of things to make it look like a lynching

7 posted on 05/14/2015 3:15:49 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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“He would have put a bag over his head, put on handcuffs, hit himself a few times - lots of things to make it look like a lynching “

Many suicides try to make a good looking corpse. Women, for example, almost never do anything to their face. Some people clean up, shave, comb their hair, etc. Suicide is often a failed communications technique. I’m so desperate...or, now look what you made me do...


8 posted on 05/14/2015 3:20:51 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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My first thoughts may be guilt thus a suicide. There is no mention in the article about how the woman died and how this man may be connected.. only that he was interviewed twice. If there wasn’t any obvious signs of a fight/beating.. perhaps he couldn’t live with the guilt or the perceived prison term if convicted. Just my thoughts on this....


9 posted on 05/14/2015 3:33:36 AM PDT by momtothree
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I think they should charge the tree with obstruction if it doesn’t start talking.


10 posted on 05/14/2015 3:34:09 AM PDT by dp0622
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Trees do talk, but slowly. It can take years to get to the end of a paragraph. Mostly, they complain about squirrels, kids with knives and how much their roots hurt. Young trees have it good now. When I was a sapling...


11 posted on 05/14/2015 3:41:27 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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And I was under the impression that the family was found hanging in the tree.


12 posted on 05/14/2015 4:18:27 AM PDT by paint_your_wagon
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Most families hanging from trees would want answers, whomever they were related to.


13 posted on 05/14/2015 4:28:19 AM PDT by LambSlave
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there are still violent neo nazi skinhead gangs around(hammerskins) so if its a lynching my money is on them.


14 posted on 05/14/2015 5:33:52 AM PDT by The Right wing Infidel
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lol. That was good.


15 posted on 05/14/2015 5:37:07 AM PDT by dp0622
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I want answers, too. But I want them based on the facts, ascertained through forensic and investigative excellence.

I do NOT want a politicized, politically correct set of answers designed to inflame one side or the other while quelling unrest for the opposing side.

If it was suicide, the scene will tell the tale. If it was not, then the same dictum holds true.


16 posted on 05/14/2015 5:50:18 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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He was really just turning his life around, likely on his way to church that day, graduating from high school shortly, everything set for a productive, long and happy life!


17 posted on 05/14/2015 5:53:02 AM PDT by armydawg505
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is it possible for your sympathy gland to malfunction? I’m just not “feeling the pain” anymore.

Can I sue these folks for attempted abuse of my sympathy gland?


18 posted on 05/14/2015 5:58:04 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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If this was a white man hanging from a tree and the cause was thought to be suicide...

Non-story...

I maybe off by a few years but there has been no official lynching documented since 1968

Lots of whites were lynched in the south back in that day as well...

19 posted on 05/14/2015 6:40:20 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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When was the last documented lynching in the US? Have these hammerheads ever lynched anybody?


20 posted on 05/14/2015 6:48:26 AM PDT by lordpumblechook
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