The Memory of George Floyd Is Literally Fading Across America

“Lynched”. The race baiting hyperbole has America so exhausted.

Reminds me of this shit back during the George Floyd protests... Two black guys found hanged in California and everyone was convinced for weeks that they absolutely must have been lynched by white supremacists because "black men don't hang themselves in public". Even after the police announced both were found to be suicides, the family of one of the guys still peddled the notion that he was lynched and raised like $200,000 on GoFundMe over it. You had celebrities demanding the FBI come in and investigate because the police couldn't be trusted... Etc.

The police later publicly released what their investigations found because idiots continued screeching about how they were lynched. In one case they literally had security camera footage of the guy hanging himself. And in the other, the guy had a long history of suicidal mental illness, including being institutionalized multiple times for threatening to kill himself and an actual attempt to kill himself once, and was also recorded on a security camera buying the rope he used to hang himself just before he did it. There were also no signs of any struggle, no defensive wounds on his body (the only 'wounds' on his body were the scars on his wrists from where he previously tried to kill himself).

/r/politics Thread Parent Link - nytimes.com