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FBI asks for patience in black man's hanging in Mississippi
okc fox 25 ^ | March 19, 2015 | JOHNNY CLARK and JEFF AMY, AP

Posted on 03/20/2015 7:58:11 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

An FBI agent appealed for patience Friday after a black man was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, saying 30 federal, state and local agents were working intensively to determine whether he was killed or committed suicide.

"Everybody wants answers and wants them quickly. We understand that," FBI Special Agent Don Alway told a crowd outside the Claiborne County Courthouse. "We are going to hold off on coming to any conclusions until the facts take us to a definitive answer."

The county coroner confirmed that the man found hanging from a white sheet Thursday was Otis Byrd, an ex-convict reported missing by his family more than two weeks ago. Byrd lived just 200 yards from the spot where his body was found, in a wooded area off a dirt road that ran behind his house.

Alway said investigators are interviewing Byrd's family and friends and searching his rental home and a storage unit for clues, and will not reveal any evidence along the way.

"We are trying to paint a picture of Byrd's life. We are trying to find out what was going on with him personally and professionally," he said.

Claiborne County Sheriff Marvin Lucas Sr. told The Associated Press earlier Friday that Byrd did not appear to have stepped off of anything in the area where he was found hanging from a tree limb about 12 feet high. His feet were dangling about two feet off the ground, and his hands were not bound, Lucas said.

"Life matters," Lucas told the crowd. "I commit to you, as the sheriff of Claiborne County, that I will not allow the shadows of the past to cast a shadow on the future."

(Excerpt) Read more at okcfox.com ...


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To: Citizen Zed; flaglady47
"Hangs up....don't sheet!"

Leni

21 posted on 03/20/2015 8:14:49 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: doc1019

Exactly who is sick?


22 posted on 03/20/2015 8:14:52 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Sacajaweau

” I will not allow the shadows of the past to cast a shadow on the future.””

whattya think? do sheriffs often make such “poetic” statements?

that reads like it was written for em by the Just Us Department!


23 posted on 03/20/2015 8:15:00 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Citizen Zed

Sheriff Lucas was elected President of the NAACP of Claiborne County Local Branch # 5273 in 2010.

Sheriff Lucas was elected to the position of Sheriff of Claiborne County in 2011

http://claibornecountysheriff.org/history_view.php?id=0


24 posted on 03/20/2015 8:15:16 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Steely Tom

Another Sandy Hook angle. They didn’t find an NRA/Tea Party/republican killer then but hey, this admin. will have to try again...


25 posted on 03/20/2015 8:16:05 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: MinuteGal

Shouldnt the lynchers be wearing the sheet and using rope to do the deed?


26 posted on 03/20/2015 8:16:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Citizen Zed

Obama administration will jump on this regardless of the cause...it fits their agenda.


27 posted on 03/20/2015 8:19:06 PM PDT by oust the louse (The Democratic Party might as well be called the Death Party. Abortion & ObamaCare/death panels.)
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To: Paladin2

Oops, my bad. LOL!


28 posted on 03/20/2015 8:19:28 PM PDT by doc1019 (Blue lives matter)
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To: Citizen Zed

“Byrd did not appear to have stepped off of anything “

“Suicide does not fit the desired narrative.”

SO IT WOULD SEEM.


29 posted on 03/20/2015 8:22:03 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Citizen Zed

I wonder if the FBI was called in when Byrd murdered a white woman for $101? Was he investigated for violations of her Civil Rights? I already know the answers...just being my old sarcastic self.


30 posted on 03/20/2015 8:23:24 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: NRx

Not every murder is a lynching. In fact, depending on your definition, it’s been 50 to 60 years since the last true lynching.


31 posted on 03/20/2015 8:24:55 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: FlingWingFlyer

One of the local tv stations in my area opened up the nightly news this evening with the story of the black guy getting beaten in Virginia and the next story was the black guy found hanging in Mississippi. No story about the white guy in Philly walking his dog getting murdered by young, black males. Hmmm....I wonder if the lib media has an agenda? (snicker)


32 posted on 03/20/2015 8:26:04 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Citizen Zed

When’s the last time you saw a headline about a murderded “white man?”


33 posted on 03/20/2015 8:28:14 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: .45 Long Colt; paintriot; Lil Flower; Malichi; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; ...

And the beat goes on


34 posted on 03/20/2015 8:28:53 PM PDT by WKB
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To: driftless2

The media is going to get their race war if it’s the last thing they do.


35 posted on 03/20/2015 8:29:18 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Citizen Zed

Obama wants chaos. I wouldn’t doubt that the hanging was done by hired thugs.


36 posted on 03/20/2015 8:33:41 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Ahhh, how about the tree branch.


37 posted on 03/20/2015 8:34:29 PM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: SpaceBar

They are going to do everything humanly possible to start one, that is for damn sure.


38 posted on 03/20/2015 8:35:19 PM PDT by sport
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To: Sherman Logan

From the article : “It’s too early in the process to speculate, but “based on the history in Mississippi” of racial hate crimes, we are always concerned when an African-American is found hung in a tree in this state.

From an article 10+ years ago:
The last recorded lynching in Mississippi occurred 40 years ago when eight masked men dragged a black man from a county prison and hanged him just days before he was due to go on trial for raping a white woman.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96223


39 posted on 03/20/2015 8:37:49 PM PDT by WKB
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To: sargon

He killed a women and served 25 years in prison. I posted an article.


40 posted on 03/20/2015 8:38:17 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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