There has been a significant uptick in Black of us being discovered hanged lately. BOSSIP has printed quite a few posts about hangings, and in nearly all these circumstances, police conclude that “there isn’t any proof of foul play”, a lot to the chagrin of the victims’ households and the Black neighborhood at giant. Hanging and lynching deaths are such a painful a part of our historical past that we’ll by no means take the phrase of the police at face worth when certainly one of our personal is inexplicably discovered lifeless with little to no rationalization.
Recently, a narrative popping out of Atlanta has introduced up some tough feelings and at the moment there are way more questions than solutions.
According to 11Alive, a 21-year-old Black man named Kyle Bassinga was discovered lifeless in Fair Oaks Park in Cobb County, Georgia, days after he went lacking. The Cobb County Police Department has dominated Bassinga’s loss of life a suicide and says that there isn’t any indication that foul play is afoot.
However, the encircling neighborhood isn’t satisfied. The Cobb Board of Commissioners Chairwoman Lisa Cupid spoke on to that well-earned skepticism.
Speaking of Bassinga’s loss of life and the circumstances through which he was discovered, Chairwoman Cupid stated “this can be a violent method that has precipitated many to consider the times of slavery and of Jim Crow, and any such violence proven towards African Americans, notably males, throughout that historic time has precipitated many to reply to what’s occurring with nice disbelief.”
She continued:
“We need to see the reality of the matter first for the household, who’s deserving of perceive that as they undergo their very own grief at the moment, however it’s additionally necessary for our neighborhood to know the reality,” Cupid stated. “But I don’t need us to lose the thought that it’s additionally necessary to our women and men in regulation enforcement for them to have the ability to establish and convey the reality.”
A public vigil for Kyle Bassinga will likely be held at this time. We pray that his household finds peace and justice as this investigation strikes ahead.
