As the protests against racism, police brutality, and white supremacy continue all over the world – a disturbing thing has happened.
Five black men have been found hanging from trees during the last week alone. While the racist authorities and law enforcement insist on calling them suicides, black community is seeing this as racially motivated murders by the KKK.
These are the incidents
Robert Fuller, aged 24, was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, California.
Another black man is Malcolm Harsch who was found hanging in Victorville, Southern California shortly after George Floyd’s murder.
A week ago, Dominique Alexander, another black man – was found hanging from a tree in Fort Tyron Park in Manhattan.
Fourth black man to be found dead while hanging from a tree was not identified. But this incident happened in Shady Acres, Houston, Texas.
Recent reports have revealed that the fifth death was Titi Gulley, a black transgender woman, who was hanged from a tree in Rocky Butte Park in Portland, Oregon. Authorities claimed this as suicide and closed the case, but her family has been insisting that Titi was murdered.
Is KKK involved?
While authorities have dubbed all these events as suicides, five black people hanged from a tree within a week seems like an uncanny co-incidence for a chain of suicides. Considering that killing black people by hanging them from trees was the method of the Ku Klax Klan (KKK) – the white supremacist group.
You should know that while KKK originated during the 1860s, the third KKK has been active in USA since 1946. It is not banned neither it is declared as a terrorist group by the American government – much like the RSS of India which is a Brahmin supremacist hate group.
But remember how quick was Donald Trump to dub Antifa as a terrorist group, when Antifa is not even an organization but a loose grouping of people all over the world who are against fascism. If you want to know how ridiculous this idea is – You think Nazis are bad, then by definition you are Antifa and Trump has declared you a terrorist.
What the families are saying
Family members of these black men have come forward and said that they fully suspect a lynching by white supremacist groups, while authorities are hell-bent on proving these are suicides.
The Harsch family said:
“We want justice, not comfortable excuses. 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.”
It’s a possible message from the KKK to the black people
Recently, many celebrities including Kim Kardashian have demanded that the deaths of these black men should be investigated for being homicide and not suicide.
A huge crowd of protestors gathered in California to offer eulogies to these black men, and also to demand that a full investigation should start. They said it’s a message from the KKK to the black people who are protesting.
“We have a history with nooses. We don’t like ropes around our necks. It was a message for the protest we had in Palmdale and Lancaster.”
Toxicology reports and other reports of the autopsy are yet to come in, to check whether these people were poisoned or intoxicated before hanging them.
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