I found more data
Between 2005 and 2014 there were 25,207 suicides by asphyxiation. 90% of these were hanging and the most common place was a tree, at 2,215
76% of the victims were white, so 1683 people were non-white… over 9 years. SO that’s 59 a year or about 5 a month.
So yeah, finding 8 black people hanging in public over 8 months is probably pretty normal
So this is tough to track but the US NVDRS data says that between 2005-2014 there were 25,270 hangings. 90.7% of those involved hanging, so 22,931.
The three most common hanging points were Trees (2215), beams, and closets.
That alone says 221 people hang themselves outdoors every year
It’s not that the police don’t have any information, it’s that we, the people on Lemmy, don’t have any information.
The police said “suicide” and that’s where the story stops. You’re just assuming there is more to it but you don’t have any proof that there actually is
The article says one case even the family agrees is suicide. Another case the family agrees the victim was being bullied and so suicide is a strong possibility. One case the police have a suspect and it’s her boyfriend but there isn’t enough evidence to charge him. One case was so new we didn’t even have a name yet
According to the CDC about 12,000 people a year hanged themselves. You don’t think any of those people are ever black?
You’re just assuming these are all racially motivated cases of murder that the police are covering up… but you have zero evidence of that
And even if it were true it’s 4 cases over 8 months across the entirety of the United States. Not exactly the kind of thing that warrants national attention
Or there just isn’t any information because it actually was suicide
Again, one of them the family agrees probably was suicide. One of them the family admits that the victim was being bullied and so suicide is a strong possibility. One of them is probably murder there just isn’t enough evidence to prove it. The fourth case was so new we didn’t even have a name
The other four we have no information on. It’s not that the police don’t have any information, we, the people of lemmy, don’t have any information on them. All we know is that the police ruled it suicide. We have zero evidence that the police didn’t investigate or that there were signs of a struggle and the police covered it up… all we know is the police said, “suicide”
Which isn’t all that shocking because according to the CDC about 12,000 people a year commit suicide by hanging themselves. You don’t think any of those people are ever black?
And even if there were signs of a struggle that the police ignored we still have zero evidence that the murderer is white. Black people can’t hang each other? Hispanic people can’t hang black people?
It’s ironically racist to just assume that it had to be something only a white person could have done. Like saying every time you hear a story of someone getting shot you just assume the trigger man is black. Doesn’t matter what color you skin is, people are people. Anybody could have done this, including the victim themselves
So the only way this matters is if it turns out all four of the remaining cases turned out to be racially motivated murders committed by a white person but even then, it’s four people across 8 months over the entirely of the United States… not exactly the kind of thing that needs nation wide attention
McDonalds sells hamburgers for $7
I can beat that. Let me sell you a hamburger for $1
Capitalism approves… the government does not
I’m not allowed to sell you a hamburger. Not without a permit, and an inspection, and a place designated as a business to sell that hamburger from. What, you think you can just cook a hamburger on a grill and sell it to someone?
So I get a business license, find a place of business, get my permits, get my inspection, and open the doors… except all that cost money so I have a $12k loan and a building that costs $3k a month and I still need electricity, water, and wifi. Once all that is paid for I still need to earn enough money that I can go home and pay my own bills and survive
At $1 a hamburger, I’ll never sell enough hamburgers to survive so I have to raise the price. My hamburgers are now $9
McDonalds knows this. They got a stranglehold on the market and while anybody could technically compete and that competition is suppose to keep product quality high and prices low people can’t actually compete
Now McDonalds can make their burgers smaller, the quality worse, and jack up the price… what are you going to do about it?
You think Wendys will save you? Burger King? Nah, they do the same thing
Now apply this to literally everything. Clothes, washing machines, dish washers, etc… I guess in theory I could make a better TV that doesn’t come with a bunch of bullshit advertisements built into it and sell it to you for less, but the government won’t let me
he’s lucky the AI was so nice, that’s fucking awful
The problem is that we don’t have any information
Conspiracy people are going to say it’s a cover up but also it very well could be suicide or non-racially motivated murders
In that article the family straight up agrees one case was suicide, and in another case the family admitted that the victims was constantly being bullied, so good chance for suicide there too
The latest case in that article was so new we didn’t even know the victims name
That’s 3 out of 7 all year.
One case the woman left town for a family reunion and while no arrest was made her on-again-off-again black boyfriend was questioned and witnesses say that two had gotten into a fight the day before she was found. He was a felon who was currently set to appear in court for felony possession of a firearm.
So maybe 4 black people were hung due to racism. More likely, if any, it was 3. But also, maybe not. Not only do we not know any of these were murders, but we also don’t know it was a white person that did it even if it was murder
and you’re talking about a problem that is, at most, 7 people across the entire united states over 8 months
nah, the problem is that when a woman runs her entire campaign is, “I’m a woman”
Obama wasn’t like, “I deserve to win because it’s my time! I’m black”; he was just a chill ass dude who happened to be black
If democrats would stop with the victim hood shit and just focus on the fact that they’re generally good people who want to do good things, they’d win a lot more
In my state the ambulance is free
It should be free everywhere, I’m just saying that it’s not always a charge. It literally depends on your state? city?
Well, the World Cup exists
Soccer is extremely popular the world over so I image that did it first
I’m pretty sure I saw Green Day for like $20 in a place a little bigger than my house after Dookie came out. Billie Spit on me
I don’t like Green Day anymore, but my gut says tickets are like $100 and I’ll be so far away I have to watch them on a giant TV
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this is just a case of shoving politics into everything and that sucks
We have hamburgers, hot dogs, deep fried Twinkies, etc…
People who have to make everything political are the fucking worst
another one
He did it. He never even attempted to deny he did it. He literally sent emails to track where the CEO would be. There are zero other suspects.
He did it. We all know he did it. We just pretended like he was an innocent man being framed because we support what he did; you weren’t suppose to take us seriously
Holy Shit it’s Donald Trump!
I agree, but somewhere along the line a bunch of people got confused and now literally think there’s a real conspiracy to frame Luigi who is literally an innocent man
He’s not innocent. He shot that man
We’re all just glad he shot that man and we wish he would have shot a few more
You’re exactly the type of person I’m talking about
It was never a debate if he actually did it. We know he did it. We know why he did it. He’s admitting to doing it. He literally sent emails pretending to be an investor to find out when the CEO would be at the conference. We all know he did it, we all just pretend like he’s innocent because we support him. Only fools literally think he’s innocent
Is it not murder to knowingly turn down life saving medical procedures people paid for because doing so makes you rich?
CEOs should be fucking scared people will murder them in the street… then maybe they’ll make good decisions again
I support Luigi
But also, Luigi did it
I know that. I’ve always known that. He’s never really denied it. He just admitted it himself
We all joke around that he’s innocent and that he was with us at church or whatever… that the real shooter is a woman or whatever… but these are jokes. we don’t actually think he’s innocent, we’re just pretending like he’s innocent to show support
There seems to be a crazy amount of people who don’t understand that though and might actually think that Luigi literally was with me at church that day and that I did actually see a 9 foot Amazonian woman pull the trigger.
There seems to be a crazy amount of people who think Luigi is being framed because they apparently believed the comments they read on the internet not understanding that we’re all joking out of support
I’m part of some flat earth debate groups because I like physics… they’re real
Mostly it’s a religious thing. These people you have to just ignore because you can take them to space and push them out into the void of space with no helmet so they could see the round spinning earth with their own eyes and the last thought that would go through their brain before they froze in the vacuum of space would be, “the devil has taken control of my vision”
I’d guess the 2nd most popular group of flat-earth supporters are just weird-o conspiracy people. The government lies about everything and since NASA is a government agency it too must be lying.
Then you got the people who are dumb and know they’re dumb but after a lifetime of being called dumb have convinced themselves that they’re actually the smartest person in the room and the only reason everyone thinks they’re dumb is because everyone else is too dumb to understand their genius. These people think they know everything about physics but the shit they say just showcases their complete inability to understand even the most simple concepts
And then you just have people who just don’t know any better. Like maybe it’ll be a guy who’s profile picture is him with some goats in a small village in Africa. He’s well meaning but he knows nothing about relativity or gravity because he never really went to school and the education he did get was just from some other person in his village doing their best. You don’t really need to understand relativity to survive in the deserts of Africa and so it’s not well understood out there. This man walks 50 miles a day and has never seen a mountain in his entire life. All he’s ever known is flat lands and dirt. Then one day he travels to a near-by village with electricity and gets on the internet only to see a bunch of crazy white people talking about how water sticks to a spinning dirt ball in space and he laughs. Silly city-people, they don’t know shit.