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Imo it's pretty ridiculous people on social media jumped to "lynching" after hearing he had rope thrown around his neck. Don't get me wrong, it is suspicious to do that to a black person and I can't really see why else rope would be used in such a way except for a symbolic lynching, but assuming what's been recently reported is true, I did not expect the rope to be a thin clothesline rope. And I also didn't expect it to be loosely slung around him. Granted, maybe they didn't have time to tighten it (this did apparently all happen in only about a minute) and maybe it was just meant to be symbolic, but I really didn't picture what's being reported when I heard "lynching."
I am not sure who even first used the word lynching in connection with this. The police report says white rope was "draped" around his neck, so the official report did not liken this to a lynching. Doesn't mean they're not seeing the connection, it just means they weren't sensationalizing it - which is my point, why sensationalize it so early on? It's now a week later and there is barely any progress in this investigation, it seems. Apparently, no recorded attack though many of his other movements that night were recorded. Imho, even if this turns out to be entirely true and they catch the people who did it, it's foolish to sensationalize and dramatize initial reports in such a way. If this was a symbolic lynching, we will probably know when the people who did it are caught and police can examine their motives and who they are to determine what went on and why.
Imo it's pretty ridiculous people on social media jumped to "lynching" after hearing he had rope thrown around his neck. Don't get me wrong, it is suspicious to do that to a black person and I can't really see why else rope would be used in such a way except for a symbolic lynching, but assuming what's been recently reported is true, I did not expect the rope to be a thin clothesline rope. And I also didn't expect it to be loosely slung around him. Granted, maybe they didn't have time to tighten it (this did apparently all happen in only about a minute) and maybe it was just meant to be symbolic, but I really didn't picture what's being reported when I heard "lynching."
I am not sure who even first used the word lynching in connection with this. The police report says white rope was "draped" around his neck, so the official report did not liken this to a lynching. Doesn't mean they're not seeing the connection, it just means they weren't sensationalizing it - which is my point, why sensationalize it so early on? It's now a week later and there is barely any progress in this investigation, it seems. Apparently, no recorded attack though many of his other movements that night were recorded. Imho, even if this turns out to be entirely true and they catch the people who did it, it's foolish to sensationalize and dramatize initial reports in such a way. If this was a symbolic lynching, we will probably know when the people who did it are caught and police can examine their motives and who they are to determine what went on and why.
Lynching does not necessarily need to mean hanging. It just means a mob of people killing someone outside a trial. A lynching can involve someone being pummeled to death by rocks.
It's interesting how in the American mindset, lynching = hanging due to those photos being circulated from the post-reconstruction South. In many cases, those African-Americans weren't even hanged before they were killed, they were strung up after as a warning and as trophies.
Lynching does not necessarily need to mean hanging. It just means a mob of people killing someone outside a trial. A lynching can involve someone being pummeled to death by rocks.
It's interesting how in the American mindset, lynching = hanging due to those photos being circulated from the post-reconstruction South. In many cases, those African-Americans weren't even hanged before they were killed, they were strung up after as a warning and as trophies.
This is the most informative post in this whole thread.
Lynching does not necessarily need to mean hanging. It just means a mob of people killing someone outside a trial. A lynching can involve someone being pummeled to death by rocks.
It's interesting how in the American mindset, lynching = hanging due to those photos being circulated from the post-reconstruction South. In many cases, those African-Americans weren't even hanged before they were killed, they were strung up after as a warning and as trophies.
Sure, it can mean that. Yet in the history of the United States of America lynching is synonymous with hanging. It always has been.
Not likely that he was out buying a kilo of coke or a QP of weed. Personal purchases are tiny.
Yeah..plus there is video at subway. I really don't understand why so many are convinced that this was a failed drug deal. A) why call the cops if you were engaged in something illegal. B) Nobody explains how the MAGA threat letter fits into the botched drug deal.
I admit the official story has issues, but a botched drug deal has at least as many holes in it.
He doesn't "live" in the area at all. He was staying at Loews Hotel.
Which, by the way, has 24 hour room service.
I believe he lives in New York where the show is filmed? Good catch on the 24-hr room service.
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