A Black Man Was Found Hanging From a Tree--Residents Don't Buy That It Was a Suicide.

[Igel]

17. Lots? Doubtfully.

But

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-investigates-willie-andrew-jones-jr-hanging-black-man-tree-mississippi/ in 2018. Willie Andrew Jones Jr.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-atlanta-hanging-20160708-snap-story.html in 2016. Story lists some antecedents, all of which were suspected but failed the evidence test.

For example, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/federal-authorities-investigate-death-black-man-hanging-tree-mississippi in 2015, Otis Byrd.


Oddly, I can't recall, even vaguely, an instance of a white or Latino or Asian's hanging that made the national news enough for me to turn to the old Google like happened with a couple of the links above. Were they reported and I just didn't care because they weren't black? Were they not reported? Do whites or Latinos or Asians commit suicide by hanging? I assume the answer is "not reported except maybe sometimes locally; I wouldn't have cared; suicide by hangings happen.

(But I can remember, vaguely, a number of missing white blond kids, usually girls, and one missing black kid notable mostly because he (she?) was a counterfoil to all the missing white blond kids. Just an observation, on that makes me wonder about the fears that reporters play on and how they vary.)