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Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 17, 2025, 06:22:17 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yWzwf7dWEQ
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 07, 2025, 07:42:34 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6NreMy_kTI
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 09, 2025, 04:41:22 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qmDZ_WLRpY

Woke comments:

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Just example how white cops, judges, Prosecutors.and racist  all conspire together to get away with criminal activities 😮 KKK is still prevalent in America, especially in Mississippi.  Whites work together to protect each other vicious behavior.

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This is going to get worse y'all. Total immunity for law enforcement is what the new  thing will be. Although they are not cops, the main goal is to incarnate as many POC. They can't deport us, so they are keeping us in the jails or a cemetery

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Eur0pe0n c0l0nizers that don't even bel0ng on this c0ntinent, been living of stealing and deleting non-eur0pe0n pe0ples w0rldwide.
What the heck do y0u expect. Y'all been on this c0ntinent playing games pretending that eur0pe0n c0l0nizers bel0ng 0n this c0ntinent, that it is their c0ntinent, and that's why a german name trumpet is g0ing to make their ter ro rist c0l0nial 0ccupati0n greatly vio-lent again.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 10, 2024, 06:36:21 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj8zgWo7Thc
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 25, 2024, 09:36:03 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/marcellus-williams-executed-missouri-womans-233714335.html

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Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri amid strong innocence claims: 'It is murder'
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Williams, who always maintained his innocence − a claim backed by not only his defense team but later prosecutors
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No DNA ever connected Williams to the crime scene. In recent months, a prosecutor in the case said the execution should have been called off, and in a clemency petition, Gayle's family said that they "define closure as Marcellus being allowed to live."

"Marcellus’ execution is not necessary," they said.

Even so, Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and the Missouri Supreme Court denied Williams clemency on Monday.

And on Tuesday with less than an hour before the execution, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop it, though the court's three liberal justices said they would have granted Williams a stay: Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush, a Democrat, said Parson didn’t just ignore the pleas and end Williams’ life, he "demonstrated how the death penalty is wielded without regard for innocence, compassion, equity, or humanity."

"He showed us how the standard of ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ can be applied selectively, depending on who stands accused and who stands in power," Bush said in a statement to USA TODAY.

“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man," NAACP President Derrick Johnson told USA TODAY. "Governor Parson had the responsibility to save this innocent life, and he didn’t. The NAACP was founded in 1909 in response to the barbaric lynching of Black people in America − we were founded exactly because of people like Governor Parson who perpetuate violence against innocent Black people. We will hold Governor Parson accountable. When DNA evidence proves innocence, capital punishment is not justice − it is murder.”

Black Lives Matter posted on X that "it is sickening what this vile governor just did to an innocent Black man."

It is demographic warfare.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 23, 2024, 04:50:37 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-accused-attempting-drown-3-224545741.html

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A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old Muslim child in possible hate crime incident
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The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations identified the family as Muslim and Palestinian and called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the incident “as a hate crime and take all precautions to keep the Muslim family and the Muslim community safe,” the organization said in a news release Friday.

On May 19, Euless Police Department officers responded to a call at an apartment complex pool regarding a disturbance between two women. Witnesses told officers “a woman who was very intoxicated had tried to drown a child and argued with the child’s mother,” police said in a news release.

The woman, identified as Elizabeth Wolf, 42, was approached by officers as she tried to leave and placed under arrest for public intoxication.

The victim’s mother told police Wolf was questioning where she was from and if the two children playing at the pool were hers, the release said. The mother was visibly Muslim and wore a hijab, or Islamic headscarf, and modest swimwear, according to the council.

Wolf also made statements about the mother not being an American and made other racist statements, according to police.

“When the mother answered her, she stated that Wolf tried to grab her 6-year-old son but he pulled away from her grasp, which caused a scratch on his finger. The mother began helping her son when Wolf grabbed her 3-year-old daughter and forced her underwater,” the news release said.

The mother was able to pull her daughter from the water but she “had been yelling for help and was coughing up water.”
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“We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my kids,” the council quoted the mother, identified only as Mrs. H, as saying. “My country is facing a war, and we are facing that hate here. My daughter is traumatized; whenever I open the apartment door, she runs away and hides, telling me she is afraid the lady will come and immerse her head in the water again.”

The Euless Police Department confirmed to CNN Wolf posted bail out of Tarrant County Jail.

Wolf also looks like what we would expect:

(https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/XoFAiPS5Fbg3ZlvcJ98a8A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTE5MjA7aD0xMDgwO2NmPXdlYnA-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cnn_articles_875/be645adaaab6d47ca28ce957867e4aa9)
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 22, 2024, 05:44:52 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR-ZtbHQq3I

Woke comments:

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Another George Zimmermann... smfh

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Sounds about white

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How the fck is he only charged with 2nd degree murder

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white men

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He'll get off cause hes white

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The pathology of whites in America...the rules they want to impose on everyone else don't apply to them.  Why did he think it was ok for him to have a gun, but not ok for these kids who were obviously not committing a crime to have guns?  Utter hypocrisy!

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Absolutely terrible the mind set of these believe they have the right of white privilege to judge and be jury of others life

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This is what you call a sense of entitlement .

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These pink people are getting more dumber and dumber by the second. You know!! Its ** all white people for me at this point

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I said it before.  This was the plan the whole time. To give white people and cops the ability to kill black and brown people at will, all these laws that have been passed for a person to visibly carry should not prompt this reaction but when racism is alive and well this is what we have. For cops they no longer have to plant guns because their victim already has one. For regular white civilians i see they are using the cops excuse i was in fear for my life or i wanted to protect others meanwhile white teen  walks past police with loaded automatic rifles just moments after murdering 2 people

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If YOU ARE BLACK OR BROWN IN AMERICA YOU ARE A TARGET.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 19, 2024, 09:15:23 pm
It's OK for carcinogens to be "white":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaeMFAf-IQw
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 16, 2024, 07:21:12 pm
It's OK for 911 dispatchers to be "white":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StVnrI2EVjU

Woke comments:

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Boy those white boys are getting away with coldblooded murder

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if he was native, black, someone of color he would face charges in a second!!
He didn’t get charged, because he was white!!

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Disgusting previlages.

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I think there are close to 3 million. "tens of thousands of Americans belong to groups identified with white supremacist extremism, the klan being just one. These groups’ efforts to infiltrate law enforcement have been documented repeatedly in recent years and called an “epidemic” by legal scholars."

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If I was dying I wouldn't want anybody who looks like him on the other end.

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Wow!!  if "LARD" had a face...
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 07, 2024, 07:37:33 pm
It's OK for friends to be "white":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQQBsV6Qaj4

(Also, the term "horseplay" suggests Turanian blood memory?)

Woke comments:

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They didn’t arrest her because she’s a white woman , guarantee she want do any jail time.

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YT devils at again

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This is not shocking. It’s been this way since 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia.

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Black people you need to know the history of white people and why whites do these things to black people when the opportunity is presented.

It is demographic warfare.

Petition:

https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-christopher-gilbert
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 03, 2024, 06:42:28 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVeQfCFlqgE
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 23, 2024, 03:40:08 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7aWq_tQAa0

(I hardly need to add that Leigh also looks like what we would expect.)
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 16, 2024, 08:24:31 pm
If you have just been scammed, the first "non-white" you see must be the one scamming you! A.k.a. "white" logic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHJ2gBnZ9KM&t=1s
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 14, 2024, 03:21:14 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emr_dUTe6VA
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 06, 2024, 06:40:19 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-vigilante-tricked-sex-offender-193257535.html

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James Lewis Spencer III, 24, is charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of Sean Connery Showers, 37, who was found unresponsive, lying in a ditch near a park on Northwood Street, in the early morning hours of May 29, 2023, according to the Houston Police Department.
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Surveillance camera footage shows a vehicle slowing down near the victim and then "a string of rapid gunshots" coming from the vehicle before it speeds off, according to Houston police.

About a month after the murder, "Defendant made [the] same comment that ‘if the cops were not going to do anything maybe he should kill them himself,’" referring to ****, the affidavit states.
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Authorities said Spencer posed as a minor online and communicated with Showers to discuss his prior sexual history with minors and a meeting location. Cellphone records apparently show Spencer moving to and from the murder location, police said.

Showers initiated no violence in the entire incident. By voluntarily disclosing his own prior sexual history during the online chat, Showers indeed cannot even be credibly accused of attempting to mislead the person on the other side as to what the eventually arranged meeting was supposed to involve. (Shower's behaviour would not even be illegal in most parts of the world prior to the colonial era. This is why we need:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/legal-decolonization/ )

The only initiator of violence was Spencer, yet another:

https://brazoriatx.mugshots.zone/spencer-james-lewis-iii-mugshot-04-06-2022/

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White

who thinks he is entitled to kill any "non-white" whose non-violent sexual preferences he personally dislikes.

Back to the first link, woke comments :

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Another self-styled fool who thinks he's entitled to do what he wants.

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Someone from the dead guy's family or anyone else for that matter should carry out the same "justice" upon the shooter.

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gas him or put him in the chair.  whichever works worst.

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While I am no fan of peddoos, what this guy did is still worse than what the victim did.

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Lol, now he gets to spend the rest of his life with a prison full of them.

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That white guy is going to learn the hard way now.

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I suspect all the MAGAtrash on here are posting give him a medal type things.

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All the MAGAtrash want to make the cold blooded murderer trump's VP.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 27, 2024, 12:55:56 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JChYJ2SuL6g

Best comment:

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Protect and serve?  No.  The truth is "segregate and eradicate."
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 06, 2023, 07:36:25 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UF2QXOK5lw

Woke comments:

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White people are the worst...No matter the age. They RAISIN' GENERATION after GENERATION like this...

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White kids who are doing THIS s***, WOULD NEVER do THIS in a predominantly black school, or even if it was 50% black!

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What we need to do is stop crying and go follow through with their same +hr3a+z on them!!!
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 03, 2023, 08:01:00 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EdMj7ioSQI

Woke comments:

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She was half naked, with her missing clothing nowhere to be found.
  It's an immediate cover up by the cops because ALL COPS ARE RACIST CRIMINALS, ALL COPS, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM

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Black people ain’t about to hang themselves on no damn tree lol…we all know who like to hang and have a history of hanging people on trees…Of course they not going to investigate.

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Black ppl don't commit suicide like that. Someone murdered that woman. Dirty Cops are covering for someone... maybe one of their own.

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This was the work of a yt devil thats a fact! A Black Woman hanging herself is bs

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The police know it was a lynching That's why they ruled it to be a suicide because they know it was white racist white supremacist who murdered her by lynching

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I'm the one that  keeps screaming Modern-day Lynchings..Do y'all  Hear me Now...Suicide my Asz...there's a War going on black people..Please take the F^cking blinds off and wake up..Smfh

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It is officially 1940 again for black Americans, our communities never stopped being targeted for hate and abuse but now you can't hide from it anymore. More and more stories like this are going to keep popping up. We are under siege... it's time we started resisting.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 01, 2023, 05:36:13 pm
It's OK for nurses to be "white":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SrnYZ8-kxY

It is demographic warfare.
Title: Re: Rightist massacres
Post by: guest98 on August 11, 2023, 03:52:36 pm
https://www.cp24.com/world/17-year-old-suspect-in-new-york-stabbing-of-dancer-indicted-on-a-hate-crime-murder-charge-1.6514284

17-year-old suspect in New York stabbing of dancer indicted on a hate-crime murder charge

It's OK for defending yourself to be "white"

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A 17-year-old was indicted on a hate-crime murder charge in a stabbing that followed taunts and confrontation over a group of men dancing shirtless to Beyonce as they gassed up their car, prosecutors said Thursday.

Prosecutors concluded O'Shae Sibley's death was motivated by anti-Black and anti-LGBTQ bias, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said.

“It's clear to me, under the circumstances of this case, that in substantial part, this attack was caused because people were offended by Mr. Sibley and his friends dancing and celebrating,” Gonzalez said.

 The suspect is due in court Friday to answer the charge. It mirrors the charge on which he was arrested last week. If convicted, he faces at least 20 years in prison.

The Associated Press sent a text message to his attorney, Mark Pollard, seeking comment. Pollard's voicemail box was full. The teen's grandmother told the Daily News he was defending himself. Prosecutor's have not released the suspect's name.

 “What the video shows is that Mr. Sibley was rightfully in a position to speak out and protect himself and his friends from anti-gay and anti-Black slurs, and that what occurred after that was a crime,” said Gonzalez, a Democrat. He noted that Sibley and his friends were unarmed.

Defending yourself from the anti-gay or anti-Black comments, arguing back, it's not a cause for someone to take a weapon and do what was done in this case,” the prosecutor said. He added that he was confident the charges would be proven at trial.

About 200 people attended Sibley's funeral Tuesday at a historic opera house in Philadelphia. His death has prompted an outpouring of tributes from politicians and celebrities, including Beyonce and filmmaker Spike Lee.



Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 01, 2023, 12:21:48 am
It's OK for self-fulfilling prophecies to be "white":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR_3hgwq_7k
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 20, 2023, 02:26:13 am
It's OK for disturbance to be "white":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A9oO4LhcyY

It is demographic warfare.

Woke comments:

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I keep saying that we "Black people are under attack. There's a collective unspoken agreement between white males to assault or murder us.

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they never changed they been doing this its our fault for not fighting back

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Black people whatever they do to you, you do to them, we are in a WAR, wake the ……….ck up.

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We need to get guns!!!! Every black man who is not in jail need to get a firearm

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arm and protect yourselves at all times. show your enemies no mercy.

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We are NOW in a RACE WAR. What more evidence do we need.

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It's been a war since 1492.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 03, 2023, 04:22:11 pm
Which is why I said:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/msg20721/#msg20721

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One focused Le Pen assassination explicitly framed as retaliation for Nahel's death will change the course of French history more than unfocused street riots no matter how large in size.
Title: Re: Police rightist bias
Post by: guest98 on July 03, 2023, 03:27:22 pm
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/3/fund-for-french-police-officer-who-killed-nahel-m-tops-1m

Fund for French police officer who killed Nahel M tops $1m

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Outrage swells on social media as fund for accused police officer grows, with calls on GoFundMe to close the pot.

A collection for the French policeman who sparked nationwide riots by killing a teenager during a traffic stop has been growing, prompting outrage among politicians and activists.

Set up by Jean Messiha, a former adviser to the French far-right politician Marine Le Pen, the appeal on GoFundMe had raised 963,000 euros ($1.05m) at the time of writing on Monday.

Centrist and left-wing politicians condemned Messiha’s collection drive.

Some called out the hypocrisy of the pot still taking donations.

In 2019, the fund for a former boxer who had punched several police officers during “yellow vest” anti-government demonstrations in 2019 was quickly closed down.

Left-wing politician David Guiraud wrote on Twitter: “The assumed message is kill Arabs, and you will become millionaires, and the government watches this horror pass without saying anything when it had closed the yellow vest pot in 2 days who hit a policeman. Repugnant.”

The French activist group Sleeping Giants tweeted the “sheer existence” of the fund “inflames the sentiment of injustice and furthers tensions”.

Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 29, 2023, 07:32:43 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nVWm-dfbzk
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: guest98 on June 28, 2023, 01:57:46 pm
It's OK for racist murder to be "white" in the US.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 27, 2023, 06:30:00 pm
Update:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UHmmpGr4T4
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 16, 2023, 11:48:39 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9QnMoOqjVo

Woke comments:

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What is the logic of burning her body?  Trying to destroy evidence?

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How do we know the 2 men who dumped her did not pump her full of drugs, did horrific acts to this young woman and burned her body to hide the evidence. We all know this is what happened.

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If the cops come across a body all they have to do is make a phone call and the coroner will come around and do what’s necessary.

The elephant in the room is, “Why did they do this?“

The only reason I can think of right now is to cover up a crime.

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This is disgusting. Obviously they were covering up a murder.

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They covered up a murder!What's the name of the Prosecutor? Why isn't Federal charges being brought against these murderous pigs! Prosecutorial  misconduct as well. Why doesn't the Mayor weigh in and call for Federal charges. F**k the police and the Democratic Party! And the Republicans  f**k them too!
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 15, 2023, 07:37:25 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2gcZbVw0wo
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 07, 2023, 09:21:34 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVVRxGotNA
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 06, 2023, 12:49:49 am
It's OK for doors to be "white"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5DpDl_0F7M
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 27, 2023, 12:38:28 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJfT_Oxa-pg

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/msg12823/?topicseen#msg12823
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: guest98 on May 24, 2023, 01:29:41 pm
It's OK for child murder to be "white".
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 23, 2023, 06:15:40 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwxA9lv8SSo

Woke comments:

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Translation: The terrorist in blue who murdered Sinzae Reed will get probation and a fine.

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if he was scared for his life why did he get out of his truck instead of driving away

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He waved self defense when he parked his truck and got out.

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Well yea. He is white.

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It's their culture...gun minus a noose

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Another episode of extreme white privilege.

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Another SWS gets away with modern-day lynching? Say it with me now. WHITE PRIVILEGE!!!!

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People are really getting tired of white people...

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It’s really hard not to hate white folks sometimes I swear.

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i want my land back, nobody invited the Eurotrash here in the first place.

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just look at modern history... almost every bad thing has happened  had a mayo swilling pasty white face behind it.

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I'm starting to h8 these devils.

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Starting??? 😮
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 22, 2023, 02:22:56 am
"White" logic:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/york-subway-killer-denies-hes-210847692.html

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The former US marine who killed a homeless black man with a chokehold on a New York subway train, has denied he is a racist, saying he was planning a trip to Africa before the incident.
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“You can tell by my past and all my travels and adventures around the world. I was actually planning a road trip through Africa before this happened.”

I guess none of these guys were racists either, then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa

Even in the present-day, liking travel has nothing to do with not being racist:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/when-it-comes-to-palestine-france-can't-shake-off-its-colonial-past/msg16487/#msg16487

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/msg17953/#msg17953

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/msg18478/#msg18478

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/msg200/#msg200

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/racist-bullying/msg11513/#msg11513

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/racist-bullying/msg11519/#msg11519

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/reproductive-decolonization/msg6855/#msg6855

etc.

(I guess next we will hear from Western scientists telling us that they are not humanists because they love experimenting on non-humans?)

At least some commenters are calling him out:

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As if racist never visited Africa duh how do you think apartheid happened...

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That in fact sound racist and make him guilty as hell to want to Visit Africa.

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first I didn't think he was racist now I'm convinced he's racist.

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Penny has those empty and cold Q Anon eyes.

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It doesn;t help he was smiling while killing him

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he was extremely disrespectful to victim he used other peoples fear to see if he can get away with a public killing he knew what he was doing
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 20, 2023, 03:58:23 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/daniel-penny-gets-kyle-rittenhouse-175157887.html

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Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and other Republicans are rallying around Daniel Penny.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to announce his 2024 candidacy next week, urged his followers to donate to Penny's legal fundraiser to show him that "America's got his back." That fundraiser, set up by Penny's attorneys, has now surpassed $2.6 million. Notes of support say Penny's "bravery should be rewarded."

Former UN Ambassador and GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley echoed those thoughts, calling for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to pardon Penny. Another candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, donated $10,000 to Penny's fundraiser, The Associated Press reported.

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, for his part, said Penny "was in great danger and the other people in the car were in great danger," according to The Associated Press.

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How white! You can’t just kill someone because he was yelling.

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Of course they support him. He killed a black man. These are the same people who would gather around a hundred years ago to watch a lynching… and think it was warranted.

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Republicans love when white men kill black people, the ones like The orange guy and DeSata are bigots, racist, white supremist. Someone needs to put choke holds on the and snuff them out

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How come all those many passengers on planes being disruptive, violent, and making death threats recently were merely restrained and not killed? Why weren't the folks who restrained them not hailed as "heros" and propped up by MAGAs like Penny? We all know why and it's disgusting.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 2ThaSun on May 15, 2023, 09:36:16 pm
'All strands of right are openly, aggressively embracing right wing vigilante violence': Columnist
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The arrest of the man who killed homeless Michael Jackson performer, Jordan Neely, on a New York City subway train, Daniel Penny, has been met with an overwhelming reaction from conservative Republicans and organizations. GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz gave Penny the nickname "the subway Superman.” The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board described Penny in a headline as “The Subway Samaritan.” Joy Reid and her panel discuss how leading Republicans and conservatives apparently believe that every election cycle requires a new boogeyman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JPJtZt11ns

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Amazing how these "Christians" have no idea how to handle a homeless person....the realization that they are turning on the people they are supposed to help.
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SOME republicans use a "Christian coverall" to do whatever they want, or to support THEIR version of truth. The truth is, usually their intentions and actions are THE FURTHEST THING from Jesus's intentions and actions. So they cover their bad deeds with prayers to be saved. Jesus would prefer they actually live and act like HIM.
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Have you ever seen a happy maga supporter, not whining about being a victim or ranting about some crack-pot conspiracy theory? Yeah, me neither. 🤣

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/rightist-militias/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/rightist-mass-shootings/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/judeo-christian-theocracy-supporters-in-the-us-(dominionists)/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/right-left-(judeo-)christian-divergence/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/alt-right-internet-pipeline/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/identitarian-movement/
                https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/maga-communism/
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 15, 2023, 05:52:19 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kx-xkvGEwU
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 08, 2023, 05:44:03 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjeQOJjKKRU
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 03, 2023, 06:32:57 pm
It's OK for chokeholds to be "white":

https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/shocking-video-shows-nyc-subway-passenger-putting-unhinged-man-in-deadly-chokehold/news-story/07ae0ddd809129a6d41d26c52be2a0b9

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The 24-year-old passenger stepped in after the homeless man, identified by sources as 30-year-old Jordan Neely, began going on an aggressive rant on a northbound train on Monday afternoon, according to police and a witness who took the video.
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“He said he had no food, he had no drink, that he was tired and doesn’t care if he goes to jail. He started screaming all these things, took off his jacket, a black jacket that he had, and threw it on the ground.”

That’s when he said the first passenger came up behind Neely and took him to the ground in a chokehold. Vazquez said he kept him there for some 15 minutes.

The approximately three minute and a half long video shot by Vazquez shows the blond subway-rider lying on the floor of the train with his arm wrapped around the man’s neck.

The train was stopped, with the doors opened, at the Broadway-Lafayette Street/Bleeker Street station, where Vazquez said the conductor had called 911.

Neely, who was living on the streets and had a history of mental health issues, lost consciousness after being put in the chokehold, and EMS workers at the station were unable to revive him, police and law enforcement sources said, the Post reports.

The blonde passenger, who sources told the publication is a Marine veteran, was taken into custody and later released without charges.

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/05/03/07/70513749-12040347-image-m-11_1683093775184.jpg)
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 24, 2023, 06:49:18 pm
More:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RzOHK14A-s
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 18, 2023, 02:47:17 am
It's OK for meetings to be "white":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOXRoytCkOg
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 17, 2023, 05:31:41 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ega8ITw_4
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 14, 2023, 10:02:43 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL2DzyA6TmQ
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 14, 2023, 06:40:43 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIuMT0HcyhU

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rasheem-carter-mississippi-dead_n_6410e275e4b0bc5cb64d328b

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When they were on the phone, she told HuffPost, Carter said white men in three pickup trucks were following and harassing him.

Later that day, he went to the police station in Taylorsville. What happened there remains a key point of contention between his family and the police. According to Tiffany Carter, Rasheem went to the Taylorsville police twice to report he feared for his life. He also asked for a ride back to the Super 8 motel in Laurel, where he was living, about 22 miles southeast of Taylorsville.

Police agree that Carter asked for a ride, but they have given conflicting accounts about the extent to which he voiced fear for his life ― or if he did at all.
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Carter left the police station. And he never made it back to the motel.
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A Washington Post report found that since 2000, there have been at least eight suspected lynchings of Black men and teenagers in Mississippi, and local police departments have repeatedly been accused of racist practices.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 11, 2023, 03:16:56 am
It's OK for racism to be "white"?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ahmaud-arberys-killers-deny-racist-200352825.html

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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Three white men serving prison sentences in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery are asking an appeals court to throw out their federal hate crime convictions, with two of them arguing their histories of making racist comments don't prove they targeted Arbery because he was Black.

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Of course, you guys!  Your lifelong history of racist comments and actions don't mean you're racists!  How insensitive of us to even suggest it.

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Please. So they are saying they would have done the same thing to a white guy jogging through the neighborhood?

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The fact that Arbery was seen previously on a construction site without taking anything, proves he had stolen stuff. But these guys previously spouting racist rants does most certainly not prove that there was a racist motive for chasing and killing Arbery.

Right, got it.

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So what their saying is that they're racist, but they weren't racist that day.

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Whats scary is that he doesn't even know he's a racist!

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most whitey s dont

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Racism is embedded in whites.

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The thing to NEVER forget about this case is that the police werent going to arrest them, the prosecutor wasnt going to charge them until the tape leaked. They almost walked free. Wonder how many walk free that we never hear about?
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 04, 2023, 07:15:18 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-allegedly-shot-unarmed-black-011845277.html

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A Man Who Allegedly Shot An Unarmed Black Airbnb Guest Who Was Crossing The Street Said “Oh, You Think You Can Run?” Before Firing His Weapon
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During a preliminary hearing, San Jose police Det. Jessica Lindenberg testified that the victim, who survived the shooting, told her in an interview that he was staying at an Airbnb across the street from 67-year-old Mark Waters’s home on Oct. 2, 2022, when he left the rental to go to a nearby Safeway for food around 11 p.m. As he was crossing the street to get onto the sidewalk, the victim, identified as El’hajj Bullock, said he saw Waters exit his house with a gun in his hand.

“[Bullock] believed in that moment that he was being robbed,” Lindenberg said, adding that Bullock said he put his hands up to show they were empty “and said something along the lines of, ‘I don’t have anything.’”

Lindenberg testified that Bullock said Waters then pulled the gun up and pointed it at his chest. At that point, Bullock turned around and started to run away from Waters.

As he was running, Bullock said, he heard Waters say, “Oh, you think you can run?,” heard the sound of a gunshot, and then fell to the ground as he felt pain in his right leg.

Bullock was transported to a local hospital, where he underwent surgery to repair a broken femur, according to Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Aidan Welsh. As a result of the shooting, Bullock was still experiencing pain and relying on crutches and a wheelchair to get around two months later, Lindenberg testified.

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“Allegedly?”  It was caught on camera.

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If they are old or white they say, "allegedly."

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yeah, and the white male police give them a pass.

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"felony assault"????????????  How about attempted murder!

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nah, the shooter was White

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This is the GOP and maga. This is who they are. He just did what most right wingers want to do.

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And that my friends is why most old white men should not have guns.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 23, 2023, 07:37:30 pm
Lynching picnics returning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2RhA6kanNM

Answer to Reed's question: we do not coexist with them; we exterminate them.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 22, 2023, 05:55:37 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/19/black-babies-stillborn-almost-twice-rate-white-babies-ons-england-wales

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Tinuke Awe, the co-founder of Five X More, a campaign group to improve black maternal health, said the figures were not a surprise. “We know that these numbers have been higher for black women and their babies for decades now, that’s why it’s not a surprise to us. The data has been there for a while. It’s just a shame that it’s going up instead of going down.”

Rightism has also been going up. Might these two phenomena be related?

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Clotilde Rebecca Abe, also a co-founder of Five X More, said the figures highlighted that little was known about the causes of the disparities. “We need to find the root of the issue. I want to know, in terms of stillbirth, why are black babies dying more? And what are the causes behind it? Are black babies dying from the same thing that white babies are dying from? What are the causes of this?

“Should we be looking at the mother’s history and the mother as well? Is it because black women aren’t being listened to? So when they say reduced foetal movements and things should be done, is it not getting done on time? Are they having traumatic births? Is it because they are having rushed C-sections? What is the issue that is affecting the child? Is it a condition that the mother had that went undiagnosed during a pregnancy? What exactly is it?”

Covert demographic warfare.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 12, 2023, 06:57:03 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RHlOLmqvzE

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They probably finished him off inside the paramedic transportation vehicle.

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These ppl are soooooo evil ….  They have a history of hanging black ppl and now in disguise they hang or smother black ppl by other means low key.

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Those so called paramedics ( caregivers ) are just kkk in disguise !

It is demographic warfare.
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 09, 2023, 05:27:53 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQYkD8Kf6So

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In other words, the shooter panicked at the sight of a black person and opened fire.

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Itching to shoot Black people say it, right

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Shoot black ask questions later you cannot justify that shooting no way besides you are a stereotype bias white bastard that need the death penalty for that young boy death

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That's cap! Who shoots someone multiple times then performs cpr? he was playing on the minds of the police.

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Charge him NOW for the murder of this child!!!!!
Him pretending to do CPR in the presence of cops was a coverup.

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now if that was  a black man  who did that to a white  child   they would  beat him up  and arrested him

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Another Trayvon Martin incident. Prepare for the racists to demonize this young man & their protectors telling us "How dare you jump to calling it racist".

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Our lives mean nothing to these racist they use to cover their heads with white sheets not anymore they do it openly now .

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BLACK MEN WHEN WILL YOU GET TIRED OF THEM UNALIVING YOU AND YOUR SONS???

It is demographic warfare. Will you start fighting back?
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 05, 2023, 09:40:53 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE_d1FubciA

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misdemeanor charge of involuntary manslaughter

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A witch. She did that on purpose. Sacrifice.

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She killed that baby. She did this on purpose due to inherent white supremacy. This woman is without a soul. There is n
NO love in her heart! I can't even say shame on her because these people have a death wish for our kind. Parents plse stop leaving your children with these soul-less beings. You already know how they feel about our kind. Please stop.trusting these.bei go with your babies. There is no more saying 'I didn't know this could happen.' Research will show their true intent toward our kind.

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my brown people why do ya'll entrust your kids to these devils...smdh

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This story doesn't surprise me black people still trusting enemies is what surprises me

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Stop trusting white people

Ahimsa comments:

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Street justice will be the only thing that will work for white ppl they needs to feel wrath and pain too

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How is this woman still breathing?

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I'd choose vengeance and retaliation as my personal justice
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: guest19 on November 09, 2022, 12:20:03 pm
racist town's should be invaded
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 08, 2022, 06:47:50 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJIuF9cd8_o

(She also looks like what we would expect.)
Title: Re: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 04, 2022, 08:14:38 pm
Latest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF0-09M8LMU

It is demographic warfare.
Title: Crypto-lynching
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 04, 2022, 08:14:11 pm
OLD CONTENT

Developing story (and very good TYT commentary - please listen to the whole thing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf-SFtuZm4Y

This becomes even more suspicious when we note a second similar recent death in the same region:

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/06/13/palmdale-hanging-victorville-suicide-investigation-black-suspicious-death/

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In neighboring San Bernardino County, authorities there said they were still investigating the cause of death of 38-year-old Malcolm Harsch, whose body was found hanging in a tree near the Victorville city library. A sheriff’s spokeswoman, Jodi Miller, told Victor Valley News foul play was not suspected in Harsch’s death but the man’s family said they were concerned it will be ruled a suicide to avoid further attention.

In a statement to the publication on Saturday, the family said a few people who were at the scene told them there was blood on his shirt but no indication of a struggle. They said Harsch didn’t seem to be depressed and had recent conversations with his children about seeing them soon.

“The explanation of suicide does not seem plausible,” the statement said. “There are many ways to die but considering the current racial tension, a black man hanging himself from a tree definitely doesn’t sit well with us right now. We want justice not comfortable excuses.”

A serial lyncher?

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More hangings:

www.yahoo.com/news/hanging-deaths-of-black-men-raise-fears-and-echoes-of-an-ugly-era-in-history-151101900.html

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As protests against police brutality and racist violence have rocked the country over the past month, the deaths of four Black men by hanging has put Black Americans on edge, raising ugly reminders of the lynchings that terrorized African-Americans during Jim Crow and the civil rights era.

Robert Fuller, 24, was found hanging from a tree in a public square in the early morning of June 10 in Palmdale, Calif., a city 60 miles north of Los Angeles with a population of 156,000. His death was initially ruled a suicide by county officials, but the investigation has been reopened in response to demands by hundreds of protesters.

“We want to find out the truth of what really happened. Everything that they’ve been telling us has not been right,” Diamond Alexander, Fuller’s sister, told the Los Angeles Times. “My brother was not suicidal. My brother was a survivor.”

Last week, officials announced that the finding of suicide had been rescinded.
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Suspicion about Fuller’s death was heightened when his half-brother, Terron Boone, was killed by sheriffs’ deputies in what police described as a wild shootout exactly one week later. Authorities have not established a connection between the two incidents. In addition to the local investigation, federal authorities and the state attorney general’s office also announced they would be looking into Fuller’s death.

But Fuller isn’t the only Black man who’s been found hanging in a public place in the past few weeks. A Black teenager in Texas and a 27-year-old Black man in a New York City park were also found hanging this month.
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There is a long history of investigations into the deaths of Black Americans being peremptorily closed by findings of suicide and never properly investigated. Writing in the Washington Post, author Stacey Patton noted a number of examples, including the case of Ab Young, a Mississippi man who was lynched in 1935.

“He fled to Tennessee and was captured by a mob that dragged him back to Mississippi, where he was hanged in a schoolyard, his body peppered with bullets,” wrote Patton. “Though his lynching was advertised in advance, a reporter and photographer showed up to document the event and nearly 50 people were involved, a coroner’s jury ruled that Young’s death was a suicide.”
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There have also been investigations launched into the appearance of nooses across the country. On Sunday evening, one was discovered in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only African-American driver in the top tier of the NASCAR circuit.
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Nooses were also discovered in Oakland and Harlem this month. After Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf ordered a hate crime investigation into the nooses, an effigy was found hanging in the same area. Schaaf called it “a deliberate and vile attempt to traumatize and divide Oaklanders.”

The incidents renewed speculation that followed the deaths of a number of activists who were involved with the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Mo. Two men were found shot in burned-out cars, three died of apparent suicides and one died of an overdose. Danye Jones, the 24-year-old son of organizer Melissa McKinnies, was found hanging from a tree in her yard in the fall of 2018. While a medical examiner ruled the death a suicide, McKinnies posted to Facebook that “they lynched my baby” and has maintained that her son was murdered.

“My husband, who is ex-military, and my brother both carefully examined the knots in the sheet, which they described as ‘intricate Navy knots,’ something Danye would never have known how to tie since he was never in the military or even the Boy Scouts,” McKinnies said last year. “If you were going to kill yourself, would you create these challenging knots? Plus, it was not a sheet from our home.”

Black leaders and organizations have called into question the legitimacy of suicide determinations by law enforcement before. In 2014, the North Carolina branch of the NAACP questioned the suicide ruling in the death of Lennon Lacy, a Black 17-year-old who was found hanging from a swing set in a largely white trailer park. The chapter handed the federal prosecutor a letter formally asking the FBI to join the investigation, raising questions about “quick call” suicides in which “suspicious deaths of black men are quickly classified as ‘suicides.’”

Nicholas Creary, associate director of the Center for Diversity & Enrichment at the University of Iowa, questions law enforcement’s recent suicide declarations, as the incidents suggest examples of modern-day lynchings.

“This does not seem like anything new,” Creary told Yahoo News. “It’s sort of a contemporary twist on a very old tradition of lynching.”

Creary added that through his previous research following lynchings in the past, there would be a formal inquest to determine the cause of death, which almost inevitably ended with the finding of suicide, or “this person met his death at the hands of parties unknown.” The most recent hangings align with these findings.

The family of a transgender woman, Titi Gulley, also believes that Portland, Ore., police dismissed her death because they saw little value in the body of a Black, queer, homeless person. Her body was found hanging from a tree in Rocky Butte Park on the afternoon of May 27, 2019. The Portland Police Bureau ruled the death of Gulley, 31, a suicide. Her family insists the police never considered any other possibility.

“[The police] didn’t ask any questions,” Kenya Robinson, the mother of the victim, who was named Otis Gulley at birth, told the Portland Mercury. “You saw a Black man in a tree who was in a homeless camp, and you wrote him off as being a transient homeless, and wrote it off as a suicide.”

This case has now been reopened after Gulley’s family presented evidence they collected showing that there may have been foul play involved.
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The number of hanging deaths by Black men doesn’t quite add up for Burkhalter.

“I’ll be frank, Black people very rarely go out and hang themselves publicly,”

What is really going on?

Further context:

www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/22/black-victims-hanging-suicide/

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Police say deaths of black people by hanging are suicides. Many black people aren’t so sure.

Even the official cause echoes the history of the lynching era

The historical seasons have changed, and once again, America’s trees are bearing a strange and bitter fruit — dead black bodies.

In less than one month, six black people have been found hanging from trees, in California, Georgia, New York, Oregon and Texas. Authorities say that all of these deaths appear to be suicides, with no signs of foul play. But family members of the deceased, protesters and activists, and some scholars of anti-black violence are intuitively suspicious about those conclusions. Rumors are also swirling on social media that these deaths are lynchings, with Twitter users saying things like: “With sound body and mind, I’m here to tell you right now, if my body is found hanging from a tree, I did NOT commit suicide, I was murdered.”

These incidents are happening at a time of nationwide racial upheaval — when people are already on edge and suspicious about police accounts of their encounters with black people. Tree hangings evoke traumatic memories of America’s grisly history of unpunished lynchings of thousands of black adults and children between 1880 and 1968.
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So it is quite difficult for many black folks to believe that within a matter of weeks, six black people chose to hang themselves by the neck, in public, from trees, while the fire of racial politics continues to blaze.

Kenya Robinson, the mother of Otis/Titi Gulley, 31, who was found hanging from a tree in Rocky Butte Park in Portland, Ore., on May 27, says she believes her son, who used the pronoun “she,” was murdered. Robinson says Portland police didn’t ask any questions about Gulley’s death and have treated her concerns with indifference.

“You saw a black man in a tree who was in a homeless camp, and you wrote him off as being a transient homeless, and wrote it off as suicide,” Robinson told the Portland Mercury. She had to demand an autopsy, which ultimately ruled Gulley’s death a suicide. She also reportedly told police that other homeless people said they witnessed Gulley being murdered and hung to make it look like a suicide, and that someone has video evidence.

The families of Malcolm Harsch and Robert Fuller, who were found hanging from trees in Southern California within 10 days and 50 miles of each other, are also denying police claims that the deaths were suicides. (On social media, attention is also focusing on the fact that Fuller’s brother, Terron Jammal Boone, was killed in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies in Los Angeles County last week.)

The historical context is impossible to overlook as the number of similar deaths increases.

“The numerous accounts of a deceased black man found hanging in a tree are a horrific reminder of our country’s history. We are in a moment with parallels to the era of lynching that should cause us great suspicion of any rush to label the cases as suicide,” says Thomas Foster, author of “Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men” and a professor of history at Howard University.

During the lynching era, it was not uncommon for the deaths of black men to be ruled as suicides to cover up murders by white mobs and police officers. The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, based at Northeastern University, has been compiling a database of lynchings and other forms of anti-black murder. Jay Driskell, a consulting historian for the project, says the trend of declaring black lynchings to be suicides stretches back to the 1930s. So far, he’s found around two dozen cases from 1930 to 1956; in each case, a public figure, police officer, coroner or jury deemed the deaths to be suicides and not lynchings or extralegal murders.

There was Ab Young, a farm laborer from Slayden, Miss., who was killed on March 12, 1935, after being accused of killing a state highway worker. He fled to Tennessee and was captured by a mob that dragged him back to Mississippi, where he was hanged in a schoolyard, his body peppered with bullets. Though his lynching was advertised in advance, a reporter and photographer showed up to document the event and nearly 50 people were involved, a coroner’s jury ruled that Young’s death was a suicide.

“One of the first ways that lynchers and police who murdered blacks got exonerated was through the coroner,” Driskell says. Back then, coroners did not have to have medical training. “Once in a while, they would use suicide as a way to not do their job, to cover up for police officers they knew or community members they wanted to protect from prosecution.”

A few years after Young’s murder, the 19-year-old soldier Felix Hall went missing from his barracks at Fort Benning, Ga. On March 28, 1941, his body was found hanging over a ravine in the woods on the base. His hands and legs were tied behind his back with a wire. The NAACP tried to get the Department of War to investigate, but military officials said that death was a suicide even though a military doctor who had examined Hall’s body within two weeks of when it was found had said it was a homicide and put that on his death certificate.

James Johnson was beaten to death in a jail in Florence, S.C., on Dec. 5, 1939, after being pulled over by police around 2:30 a.m. Johnson had a good amount of lumber in his car, and officers suspected he had stolen it. Johnson struggled physically with police during his arrest. Once in his cell, a 14-year-old boy who was in custody witnessed the arresting officers beat Johnson and use one of his shoestrings to hang him. But despite the wounds on his head and bruises on his body, the coroner’s jury exonerated the officers by stating that “ ‘he butted his head deliberately against the bars of the cell. He cut himself from the glass of a broken milk bottle and tried to drown himself in a toilet on the cell block,’ ” Driskell says, reading from the file. “Even though the coroner says that the blow to his head from police could have been the one that killed him, the jury chose to believe that Johnson hung himself from a shoestring. The jury basically made up a story that this guy is crazy, suicidal and does all this damage to his body before killing himself.”

In perhaps the most bizarre case, Shadrack Thompson was found hanging on Sept. 15, 1932, in Linden, Va., after being accused of attacking a white farmer and his wife. Thompson vanished, and his body was found two months later. He was burned; dismembered body parts had been distributed to members of the community as celebratory souvenirs, and his head was put on display 25 miles away, in Warrenton. The official verdict on Thompson’s death was suicide.

There’s no way to know how black family members reacted to those murders that took place so long ago, Driskell says, because their voices are lost to history and don’t show up in records from the NAACP or the Department of Justice investigations. But “there’s a whole world of rumors of lynchings that are hard to dispel because so many of them occurred well beyond the range of news reporters or police records. Lynchings were a shared communal terror that got passed down from generation to generation like a bruise on a memory.”

That’s why the current deaths are unsettling — even though police say they’re not suspicious.

“The evidence is overwhelming,” says civil rights activist and theologian Ruby Sales, who ticks off the names of other recent cases authorities ruled to be suicides that she has investigated since 2008: Billy Joe Johnson, Chavis Carter, Roosevelt Champion, Lennon Lacy, Denzel Curnell, Kendrick Johnson, whose organs were missing, Kindra Chapman, and Wakiesha Wilson and other black women from Birmingham to California who allegedly hanged themselves in jail cells.

Of course, given the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic disaster, it is possible that rates of suicide have spiked. The pandemic has also brought massive economic dislocations in black communities — which were already in dire straits financially. “So it’s not outside the realm of possibility,” Driskell says. “But it’s plausible that some, if not all, are contemporary lynchings.”

These recent incidents do follow the historical pattern of displaying black bodies publicly to intimidate black communities. “Think of Michael Brown, whose body was left on the street for four hours as evidence of black people’s powerlessness. The spectacle of displaying the black corpse is meant as a deterrent to political action and resistance,” says Tommy Curry, author of “The Man-Not” and professor of philosophy and black male studies at the University of Edinburgh. “It says to the subjugated population that we can kill your men without consequence so your cause, your resistance, your attempt to overthrow the current rule is futile.”

The days when hundreds or thousands of white people show up to witness the barbaric torture and killing of black people at lynchings are over, Driskell says. But as the resurgent Black Lives Matter movement has taken off, there’s also growing resentment from members of angry white supremacist fringe groups, some of them with badges. There’s bound to be violent reactions.

Congress is still considering bipartisan legislation that would make lynching a federal crime — but it can’t even act on this largely symbolic move because Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has argued that the language in the bill is too broad and the law may be wrongfully applied.

No wonder black communities are skeptical of the official story, after centuries of ongoing racist terrorism and government failure to prosecute our serial murderers. Here in 2020, those pastoral scenes of the gallant South are still with us. Black bodies are a strange and bitter crop.