Oh fuck that! Godammit! Kyle Bassinga had everything to live for, in school, with a good community and family.
"Since 2017, Jefferson has been compiling records of Black people found hanging across the country, concentrating on Mississippi. According to her, many of those deaths were ruled suicides, even as families insisted they were lynchings. ‘There is a pattern to how these cases are investigated,’ she said. ‘When authorities arrive on the scene of a hanging, it’s treated as a suicide almost immediately. The crime scene is not preserved. The investigation is shoddy. And then there is a formal ruling of suicide, despite evidence to the contrary. And the case is never heard from again unless someone brings it up.’ "
Oh fuck that! Godammit! Kyle Bassinga had everything to live for, in school, with a good community and family.
"Since 2017, Jefferson has been compiling records of Black people found hanging across the country, concentrating on Mississippi. According to her, many of those deaths were ruled suicides, even as families insisted they were lynchings. ‘There is a pattern to how these cases are investigated,’ she said. ‘When authorities arrive on the scene of a hanging, it’s treated as a suicide almost immediately. The crime scene is not preserved. The investigation is shoddy. And then there is a formal ruling of suicide, despite evidence to the contrary. And the case is never heard from again unless someone brings it up.’ "