I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage. They’re trying to pass this off as a suicide.
Wtf…
This happened in my hometown to a skatepark peer of mine. The cops also ruled it a suicide but none of the skaters that knew him believe that.
Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
America: How tragic, we must do more to protect students from the pressures of modern life!
Black Student Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University
America: Probably gang related.
Nah, we immediately think of lynchings.
Would the kkk qualify as a gang?
Strange fruit indeed…
I came searching for this comment
Just like that guy who “killed himself” by wrapping a rope around a tree trunk. Not a tree branch. He was tied to a tree around the trunk by his neck. They called it a suicide. No foul play involved.
I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage.
- https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/black-student-demartravion-“trey”-reed-21-found-hanging-from-tree-on-delta-state-university-campus/ar-AA1MCbF3
- https://www.newsweek.com/trey-reed-college-student-death-mississippi-2130545
- https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.13abc.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.fox13memphis.com/education/delta-state-university-student-found-hanging-from-tree-no-foul-play-suspected-officials-say/article_f5278a0a-0b0f-47c6-b829-a8cffc78a75e.html
- https://mississippitoday.org/2025/09/15/delta-state-university-is-investigating-a-students-death/
- https://www.wdbj7.com/2025/09/16/students-body-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-university-authorities-say/
- https://www.wbls.com/news/deceased-black-student-found-hung-at-delta-state-university/
It really irks me when people use “mainstream media” as a pejorative like there’s some kind of conspiracy. There are way more sources covering it than that, but I think that’s more than enough to make my point.
When I posted this, the Google search I did only gave me two results. There are more now, but I had only seen anything about it in a Facebook group I was in.
It does seem to be being picked up more. It is very concerning that the family are saying that his limbs were broken and the police are not. I have zero faith that there will be a genuine investigation - I do think it will be covered up and forgotten within a month, while we still have people pushing for “moments of silence” in schools for the dead Nazi.
It really irks me when people use “mainstream media” as a pejorative like there’s some kind of conspiracy
A small number of private companies with national syndication are owned by a cartel of billionaires. These billionaires regularly meet to discuss and align themselves on policies that benefit their group at the expense of everyone else. The policies they agree to are reflected in the media coverage.
This is a textbook conspiracy. Just not an “Alex Jones” style conspiracy, where a Murdoch and an Ellison and a Gates have to be lizard people to spice up the relatively banal affair of promoting tax cuts, deregulation, and white supremacy.
Those are all local news outlets. This is the first I’m hearing of this. I live in Atlanta.
Newsweek and MSN are local?
MSN is a repost of this: https://hip-hopvibe.com/news/delta-state-student-demartravion-trey-reed-found-hanging/
Newsweek’s coverage seems authentic, yes. It’s not like a comprehensive conspiracy or anything, and it is plausibly a suicide.
The second and third ones on the list are MSN & Newsweek. So, if by “local” you mean “US based”, or by “all” you mean “sone.”
ETA https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/body-black-student-found-hanging-tree-mississippi-rcna231661
Most local news outlets aren’t local.
For an Atlanta example, 11Alive is owned by Tegna, which owns over 50 stations, and is being acquired by Nexstar, after which they’ll have hundreds.
AP News has picked it up now at least.
This would be the first acknowledged US lynching since '81. 1981.
Would have to be acknowledged
There have been numerous apparent lynchings in recent years. But they always say “no foul play expected”
Would Epstein have been considered Lynched?
they’ll call it a suicide and keep the last acknowledgement in the 80’s.
Yup.
Dude had defensive wounds like bruises and a broken arm. Anyways, it’s definitely suicide, so we don’t have to look into it any further /s
Dude had defensive wounds like bruises and a broken arm.
Citation needed especially since the Coroner’s department has specifically refuted this.
I think they were joking about that like people say someone committed suicide with two shots to the back of the head. But thanks for posting that article, it does say the coroner didn’t find any evidence of assault so far.
I think they were joking about that
Nah, there’s a pile of misinformation circulating on social media claiming that the deceased had broken arms / legs / bruises / etc.
People unthinkingly gobble it up because it fits their world view. Farther down in the comments here you can find people already claiming that it’s a cover-up / conspiracy because the Coroner’s Statement (he’s black BTW) doesn’t jive with what they want to believe.
I really wish more people learned the lesson from Columbine where the media narrative from the start and the eventual FBI psych profile were at extreme odds with each other. Many crimes fit this mold where our initial impression is not what actually happened.
The comment you are referring to is unedited and ends with a /s Commonly used as a tag for sarcasm in case they thought someone may mistake it for being serious.
Yes, but it could be read that only the final sentence was being said sarcastically. Even with the context of the rest of the conversation.
Maybe but let’s wait for a reliable source before citing somethong transparently aligned, unqualified to know what a defensive wound looks like, and known for lying-like a coroner.
I genuinely cannot think of a less reliable source.
Well, cops said cops are innocent. Must be true.
That’s not what was said. What they claim is that there are no defensive wounds. The police aren’t suspected in this case at this time.
Right. Cops have declared themselves not suspects.
There’s no reason to suspect them
Well yeah. Look at people who try and fail to kill themselves. Usually no fresh defensive wounds. Clearly that’s what they’re always missing.
Call me crazy but I remember a few of these exact circumstances over the years. Always passed off as an accident or suicide or something…
If there was a black man hung in Mississippi, odds are that it was NOT a suicide. This is awful
The cops said it was a suicide. Are you not trusting the police in Mississippi to be honest about when a black man seeking education found hanging from a tree is suicide?
Are you saying you don’t trust the police to not murder whoever they want for no reason with no accountability then ask for extra money to do more?
Because that’s an awfully cynical thing to suggest!
Do you have a specific reason to believe the police killed this guy or are you just really off the mark here?
Even if he was murdered there’s no evidence to point to a suspect yet you are concluding it had to be the police, why?
He’s saying we shouldn’t trust the police because they have a history of lying to the public to protect themselves.
As it turns out, when you lie to people, they tend not to trust you in the future. At least if they’re not stupid.
Except the police aren’t making this claim, the coroner’s office did and there’s zero reason to expect police involvement.
No one has any public evidence one way or another. Its all circumstantial.
Mississippi is the least transparent state in the Union. There is no legal mechanism to compel the Mississippi police to release any documentation on this death. This is also the deep south where lynching were common a generation or two ago and cop were open Klan members.
We are going back to the old ways in this country. This might be a symptom of that.
There’s a reason songs like these exist:
Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone
Here’s to the State of Mississippi - Phil Ochs
What’s Going On Down Thete - Malvina Reynolds
Lynching hasn’t been “common” in over 70 years. The Klan hasn’t been prominent in 40-50 years there.
There is zero reason based on what we have for evidence right now to suspect police were involved in the crime or are covering this up.
There is zero reason based on what we have for evidence right now to suspect police were involved in the crime or are covering this up.
Agreed.
The bigger issue is Mississippi’s complete lack of transparency with these things which degrades public trust. That is going to leave a lot to public speculation. This podcast talks about it: https://revealnews.org/mississippi-goddam-2/
(I’m sure there is a more concise article somewhere, but this was a good podcast and I cannot be bothered)
I didn’t say i thought that. I dont think that. Of course I have no evidence for the thing I never said I thought. That thing I said it would be very cynical to assume.
I don’t even believe in suicide. No such thing. Just regular murder and social murder.
“We have a corners report stating he had no bruises, broken bones, or lacerations”
“May we need if?”
“No.”
Coroners are not medical professionals. They are not certified, they have no domain specific education. They just say what the cops want.
Historically accurate too
Are you not trusting the police in Mississippi to be honest about when a black man seeking education found hanging from a tree is suicide?
Apparently, Emmett Till “commuted suicide” just thirty miles away
Damn. That must be a terrible place to live. Bet the property values are ass, even for Mississippi.
“As of this time, there’s no evidence of foul play”
Yeah, no evidence at all. Not like racial tensions at their highest in 50+ years, political assassinations happening on college campuses, and a Southern university smack in the center of where KKK activity was an open secret just a generation ago.
Probably he slipped and fell, maybe he was learning Russian culture /s
None of that is relevant to this case. Racial tensions are high and it is entirely possible that had nothing to do with this guy’s death. There’s no evidence to conclude anything. That can change but right now the state cannot make claims they cannot support with actual evidence.
If they assert this was a racially motivated killing then they need to have suspects or direct evidence fir this (eg slurs written on the body) as it would be impossible to maintain this motive without them.
Racial tensions are high
JFC you just made me realize … what if Tyler was a POC? With Trump throwing gasoline on the fire like he is now? Shit, we possibly could be in low level race war territory at that point
Personally I don’t think a race war is coming and it wouldn’t make sense tosee this administration as promoting one.
It’s a class war. Class war frequently captures the minority populations so while it can seem like a race war it is a class war.
Bolivar County fought for fifty years to keep its high schools segregated.
I’m absolutely confident that we can trust the Bolivar County Police department to thoroughly investigate the death of a black college student /s
I mean, obviously if this were a legitimate lynching… the guy would have had broken limbs from defending himself… /s 🤦♂️
“As of this time, there’s no evidence of foul play,” Peeler said, adding that the Bolivar County Coroner’s Office retrieved Reed’s body for further examination. Deputy Coroner Murray Roark, who assisted in the medical review, stated there were no signs of broken limbs and suggested the case pointed toward self-harm, though the investigation remains active.
Kind of comes over like “We can tell this isn’t a lynching because we always break the victim’s legs.”
and suggested the case pointed toward self-harm
Why? What suggests this?
There have been rumors that both of the guy’s legs were broken. IDK whether this is just the coroner’s office clearing up wild social media speculation, or if they’re so brazen about a coverup that they’re willing to lie about the state of his body, but that’s why they specifically talked about broken limbs.
Supposedly the autopsy report will be released in full, but as you say - if they are willing to cover it up then the report won’t matter.
An independent review would be needed, which, with this admin especially, isn’t going to happen.
Presumably they’re going to release the body to the family at some point, and at that stage it’ll become obvious whether the legs are broken or not broken. It would have to be a pretty shockingly brazen coverup for that part of the story to be true and covered up.
“Oops, we accidentally cremated him.”
The evidence was destroyed.
Correct, that kind of thing has happened before. That would be a shockingly brazen coverup.
It would have to be a pretty shockingly brazen coverup for that part of the story to be true and covered up.
I agree, and at the same time… I can still see it as a possibility given everything else going on. There are plenty of ways “unfortunate mishandling” can happen.
I have even lower trust these days. There is so much willingness to blatantly lie all the way up to the federal level that I doubt I would trust any report produced. Not to say I’d assume it was something else, just that I have virtually zero trust in the police there or the coroner.
What I’m saying is that you do not have to trust the police or the coroner in order to know whether the guy’s legs were actually broken.
I understood entirely.
What I said was there is entirely the possibility of “Oops! His body went to the furnace instead”, or “oh no! The body was mishandled and fell”, or a whole variety of other things.
Off the top of my head, I can recall cases where:
- The body is sent to the wrong place
- The wrong body is sent to the right place
- Bodies not kept at temperature and then sent for cremation
- Bodies suffered damage due to falling down stairs
- Mishandling of bodies and reporting with the specific intent to cover up crimes (CA Sheriffs office, I remember this one distinctly, because they were protecting cops)
I’m saying its not a guarantee until the body of this kid ends up with the family, and given the history in this particular area… I have little to no trust of those involved.
Not specifically him, but…yeah, pretty much. Lynchings typically involve torture and bodily mutilation. They don’t want to “just” kill someone, they want to send a message. Hiding it as something else kind of defeats the purpose.
I had to read that part of the article twice to be sure my brain wasn’t broken.
If it were a legitimate lynching he wouldn’t be pregnant
I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage.
If a white conservative student athlete in a deep-blue area of the country had been shot and killed yesterday for no really apparent reason, it would be the lead story on every single news that exists.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/delta-university-hanging-reed-student-mississippi/
Since link seems to be broken right now
Interesting.
