Black men commiting suicide by hanging themselves from a tree

What? Anyone can follow the laws to buy the same firearms.

 

There’s no way 4 black people would choose to hang themselves from a tree in a public area in the span of 2 weeks and we never hear of it no matter what’s going on. It’s just very hard to believe. If these are legit suicides, then it’s 1 of the strangest things I have ever seen.

 

4 depressed people out of 42 million blacks, in a country where 48,000 people commit suicide every year, where suicide by hanging is the second most successful method, in the middle of an historic economic shutdown and nationwide pandemic, both of which disproportionately affect blacks. You not hearing about it is a function of (understandably) not proactively monitoring or tracking suicides by method or race, but also not considering if and how specific stories about public deaths are selectively reported, and how numerous and vastly diverse a number of incidents they can choose from.

 

Have you seen the Floyd autopsy ?

 

the vast majority of hangings are not done in a public area...4 black people hanging themselves from trees in 2 weeks is incredibly strange, but I will concede that they could all be legit suicides no matter how strange it may seem to me

 

That's what Bubba gets for being a Marxist, right @dachuda86 ?

 

The FBI has determined that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime

link

 

About a month ago or so you were saying we should be taking guns away from everyone, now you're giving them out.

Good man. And thorough.

 

This aged well.

 

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators have concluded that Robert Fuller, a Black man whose body was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale last month, died by suicide, saying a thorough investigation found no signs of foul play and showed the 24-year-old had previously expressed suicidal behavior.

On Thursday, Cmdr. Chris Marks laid out his detectives’ findings, culled from medical records and interviews with family and social workers. Fuller, Marks said, had a documented history of mental illness and self-harm, having been admitted to hospitals in California, Arizona and Nevada after expressing a desire — and on at least one occasion attempting — to hurt himself.

The Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner ruled Fuller’s death a suicide, with Matthew J. Miller, a deputy medical examiner, writing in a report that a lack of “significant trauma” to Fuller’s neck and limbs, “coupled the existence of evidence of prior suicidal ideation and a history of mental health issues,” supported that conclusion.

Jamon Hicks, an attorney representing Fuller’s family, said he would respond to the sheriff’s and coroner’s findings on Friday. Hicks has commissioned an independent autopsy of Fuller’s body, the results of which have yet to be released. A private investigator is also attempting to retrace Fuller’s last steps.

Marks said Fuller’s family was very cooperative, providing detectives with medical records and other “much-needed information.” Detectives obtained other records by serving hospitals with search warrants.

In January of 2017, Fuller was hospitalized in Arizona and diagnosed with auditory hallucinations after saying he wanted “to put a gun to his head,” Marks said. In February 2019, he checked himself into a hospital in California and reported hearing voices telling him to kill himself. And in November of that year he was hospitalized in Nevada after saying he planned to harm himself, Marks said.

In February, Fuller tried to light himself on fire, Las Vegas police told sheriff’s detectives. Fuller, who grew up on the west side of Palmdale, lived at various times in Nevada and Arizona; Marks said a coordinator at a Las Vegas shelter for homeless youths told detectives that Fuller was a “periodic resident” there from February 2019 to February of this year.

On May 14, someone using an EBT card registered to Fuller purchased a red rope from a Dollar Tree — a rope consistent with the one found at the scene of Fuller’s death, Marks said. Because the purchase was made more than one month before detectives inquired about it, they could not recover video from the store showing Fuller buying the rope, Marks said, although he noted that investigators have found video from subsequent weeks showing Fuller using the same EBT card at various stores.