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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

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

God, I hope this poor family gets justice.

[–] drdalek 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] AngryCommieKender 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought Francis made Wade Wilson immortal?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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.

[–] TropicalDingdong 9 points 2 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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the sheriff an elected official? Get rid of them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

He's doing what he was elected to do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

“I understand there’s over 1,000 hits on TikTok (accusing) the sheriff’s office of not being transparent, not providing information to the family and that is not true,” Brame said. “There’s been information put out there that there’s a lynching in Vance County. There is not a lynching in Vance County. The young man was not dangling from a tree. He was not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope, so therefore, it was not a lynching here in Vance County.” No, you see, we only define lynching in very narrow terms.

lynch | lin(t)SH | verb [with object] 1 (of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial: her father had been lynched for a crime he didn’t commit | (lynching as noun) : a city full of lynchings and riots.

Oh, you mean that definition of lynching?! No, why would you define it like that, get outta here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

He obviously tripped and hung himself trying to run through those good people in white hoods