Call Off the Race Hustlers… Mississippi Man Was Not Lynched – It Was Likely Suicide

by Jim Hoft Aug. 2, 2018 12:17 amMar. 20, 2015 3:44 pm

Earlier this week Claiborne County Sheriff, from Mississippi reported a black male was found hanging from a tree with bed sheets wrapped around his neck.

Atlanta author, opinion writer and left-wing activist Goldie Taylor immediately claimed he was lynched.

There was a lynching in Claiborne County, MS today. Otis Byrd had been missing for ten days.

— Goldie Taylor © (@goldietaylor) March 19, 2015

It wasn’t.
Preliminary tests suggested today 54 year-old African American Otis Byrd likely committed suicide.

JUST IN: Prelim autopsy suggests black man found hanging from tree in Mississippi likely killed self, via @latimes pic.twitter.com/YHYuv7Jef8

— Shepard Smith (@ShepNewsTeam) March 20, 2015

Jim Hoft

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