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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/20/1346362/-Why-Isn-t-A-Possible-Lynching-in-NC-National-News?detail=facebook
Lennon Lacy was a 17 year old African American high school student
whose body was found hanging from a children’s swing set in a largely
white mobile home park in rural North Carolina less than two months ago.
The local police declared his death a suicide within nine hours of
finding his body – despite the fact that the shoes on his feet were not
his own and were two sizes too small, despite his parents saying that
conclusion couldn’t be right and despite the fact that locals in the
small, rural town he lived in have alluded that his death might have
been a hate crime. Lennon Lacy, a 17 year old African American high
school student, was found hanging by the neck in a largely white trailer
park and local police closed the case on the possibility that he was
lynched before performing any investigation. Why don't more people know
about this?
Lennon’s family wants a federal investigation. The NAACP has asked
for a federal investigation saying “we believed there was a good
possibility of a race-based homicide and possible law-enforcement
involvement in the decision to provide the State Medical Examiner with
their conclusion that this was a suicide before any real investigation
of a possible homicide had been undertaken.“
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