• @[email protected]
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        174 months ago

        Potentially but it’s important that the case is fully investigated either way. If they’re transparent about everything it will help the misinformation wave that is already out there. The sheriff should not have said that it wasn’t a lynching outright they should’ve only said that it was under investigation and conclusions will be drawn based on the evidence.

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          24 months ago

          That’s all people want. “We are investigating the possibility. We are taking this seriously.”

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          24 months ago

          In a perfect world, yes but we don’t live in a perfect world. People’s herd or mob mentality makes it very difficult to stop the stampede once it’s started. Especially if they do have evidence that contradicts a lynching that they don’t want public at this time. Oof course this being the South, that is probably giving the cops too much credit.

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      424 months ago

      They used the excuse of “covid restrictions”?? In North Carolina??? Something is real fucky.

      God, I hope this poor family gets justice.

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    314 months ago

    If true crime podcasts are anything to go off, we know police in the south overall do very poor jobs investigating deaths.

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      74 months ago

      The Wade Wilson investigation is a testament to that. Listening to the investigation and the dead ends the cops created was maddening

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          44 months ago

          I made so many Deadpool jokes about this case to my wife she has stopped referring to me as her husband. We’re divorced. Deadpool made me divorced.

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    124 months ago

    it’s not a lynching if it doesn’t happen in Lynchburg region of Tennessee. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling hatecrime.

    Also what in the actual fuck is wrong with this country? Didn’t we fight a war over this?