Black Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
Black Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage. They’re trying to pass this off as a suicide.
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Just like that guy who "killed himself" by wrapping a rope around a tree trunk. Not a tree branch. He was tied to a tree around the trunk by his neck. They called it a suicide. No foul play involved.
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Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
America: How tragic, we must do more to protect students from the pressures of modern life!
Black Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
America: Probably gang related.
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Nah, we immediately think of lynchings.
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Would the kkk qualify as a gang?
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I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage.
- https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/black-student-demartravion-%E2%80%9Ctrey%E2%80%9D-reed-21-found-hanging-from-tree-on-delta-state-university-campus/ar-AA1MCbF3
- https://www.newsweek.com/trey-reed-college-student-death-mississippi-2130545
- https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.13abc.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.fox13memphis.com/education/delta-state-university-student-found-hanging-from-tree-no-foul-play-suspected-officials-say/article_f5278a0a-0b0f-47c6-b829-a8cffc78a75e.html
- https://mississippitoday.org/2025/09/15/delta-state-university-is-investigating-a-students-death/
- https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.wbls.com/news/deceased-black-student-found-hung-at-delta-state-university/
It really irks me when people use "mainstream media" as a pejorative like there's some kind of conspiracy. There are way more sources covering it than that, but I think that's more than enough to make my point.
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It really irks me when people use “mainstream media” as a pejorative like there’s some kind of conspiracy
A small number of private companies with national syndication are owned by a cartel of billionaires. These billionaires regularly meet to discuss and align themselves on policies that benefit their group at the expense of everyone else. The policies they agree to are reflected in the media coverage.
This is a textbook conspiracy. Just not an "Alex Jones" style conspiracy, where a Murdoch and an Ellison and a Gates have to be lizard people to spice up the relatively banal affair of promoting tax cuts, deregulation, and white supremacy.
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When I posted this, the Google search I did only gave me two results. There are more now, but I had only seen anything about it in a Facebook group I was in.
It does seem to be being picked up more. It is very concerning that the family are saying that his limbs were broken and the police are not. I have zero faith that there will be a genuine investigation - I do think it will be covered up and forgotten within a month, while we still have people pushing for “moments of silence” in schools for the dead Nazi.
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Those are all local news outlets. This is the first I'm hearing of this. I live in Atlanta.
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The second and third ones on the list are MSN & Newsweek. So, if by "local" you mean "US based", or by "all" you mean "sone."
ETA https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/body-black-student-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-rcna231661
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AP News has picked it up now at least.
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Most local news outlets aren’t local.
For an Atlanta example, 11Alive is owned by Tegna, which owns over 50 stations, and is being acquired by Nexstar, after which they’ll have hundreds.
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Newsweek and MSN are local?
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Strange fruit indeed...
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I came searching for this comment
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If there was a black man hung in Mississippi, odds are that it was NOT a suicide. This is awful
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“As of this time, there’s no evidence of foul play”
Yeah, no evidence at all. Not like racial tensions at their highest in 50+ years, political assassinations happening on college campuses, and a Southern university smack in the center of where KKK activity was an open secret just a generation ago.
Probably he slipped and fell, maybe he was learning Russian culture /s
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Bolivar County fought for fifty years to keep its high schools segregated.
I’m absolutely confident that we can trust the Bolivar County Police department to thoroughly investigate the death of a black college student /s
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None of that is relevant to this case. Racial tensions are high and it is entirely possible that had nothing to do with this guy's death. There's no evidence to conclude anything. That can change but right now the state cannot make claims they cannot support with actual evidence.
If they assert this was a racially motivated killing then they need to have suspects or direct evidence fir this (eg slurs written on the body) as it would be impossible to maintain this motive without them.
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The cops said it was a suicide. Are you not trusting the police in Mississippi to be honest about when a black man seeking education found hanging from a tree is suicide?
Are you saying you don't trust the police to not murder whoever they want for no reason with no accountability then ask for extra money to do more?
Because that's an awfully cynical thing to suggest!
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Historically accurate too
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Do you have a specific reason to believe the police killed this guy or are you just really off the mark here?
Even if he was murdered there's no evidence to point to a suspect yet you are concluding it had to be the police, why?
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"We have a corners report stating he had no bruises, broken bones, or lacerations"
"May we need if?"
"No."
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Are you not trusting the police in Mississippi to be honest about when a black man seeking education found hanging from a tree is suicide?
Apparently, Emmett Till "commuted suicide" just thirty miles away
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This would be the first acknowledged US lynching since '81. 1981.
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Would have to be acknowledged
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Call me crazy but I remember a few of these exact circumstances over the years. Always passed off as an accident or suicide or something.....
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There have been numerous apparent lynchings in recent years. But they always say “no foul play expected”
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Would Epstein have been considered Lynched?
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“As of this time, there’s no evidence of foul play,” Peeler said, adding that the Bolivar County Coroner’s Office retrieved Reed’s body for further examination. Deputy Coroner Murray Roark, who assisted in the medical review, stated there were no signs of broken limbs and suggested the case pointed toward self-harm, though the investigation remains active.
Kind of comes over like "We can tell this isn't a lynching because we always break the victim's legs."
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There have been rumors that both of the guy's legs were broken. IDK whether this is just the coroner's office clearing up wild social media speculation, or if they're so brazen about a coverup that they're willing to lie about the state of his body, but that's why they specifically talked about broken limbs.
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Not specifically him, but...yeah, pretty much. Lynchings typically involve torture and bodily mutilation. They don't want to "just" kill someone, they want to send a message. Hiding it as something else kind of defeats the purpose.
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and suggested the case pointed toward self-harm
Why? What suggests this?
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I had to read that part of the article twice to be sure my brain wasn’t broken.
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If it were a legitimate lynching he wouldn’t be pregnant
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oh, you mean like lynch lynch?
that reference might be pretty stale, idk
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Wtf...
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I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage.
If a white conservative student athlete in a deep-blue area of the country had been shot and killed yesterday for no really apparent reason, it would be the lead story on every single news that exists.
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https://www.blackenterprise.com/delta-university-hanging-reed-student-mississippi/
Since link seems to be broken right now
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Interesting.
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This happened in my hometown to a skatepark peer of mine. The cops also ruled it a suicide but none of the skaters that knew him believe that.