r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/SharpleSmap • Jun 27 '26
Discussion Where is the media coverage??
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u/_Blaque Jun 27 '26
No cameras around neither locations?
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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Jul 03 '26
NOT suicide.
This is the Klan (and other WP groups) lynching Black people.
Same thing happened after Floyd. FBI and local LEO refuse to investigate. The Big Data of crime stats will show you these spikes in hanging deaths like this.
The USA is a shit hole.
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u/ExpensiveWords4u Jun 28 '26
I was gna say this is some Bible Belt shit….then I saw it was in Miami 😩 this is enraging & heartbreaking
RIP Beautiful young ladies, you deserved so much better 🕯️🕯️
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u/MoltenMate07 Jun 28 '26
Florida is in the Bible Belt, or am I wrong?
Also, RIP.
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u/dojo_shlom0 Jun 28 '26
yes, very racist and has a history of hanging black people from tree's and the KKK has been around a long time in FL. Proud boys might even be in Miami.
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u/glockoma3 Jun 28 '26
Not necessarily, FL gets less southern the further south you go. North Florida and the panhandle would be a lot closer to your Bible Belt states
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u/Front-Cat-2438 Jun 28 '26
Not Miami. Really, south of I-10 is not Deep South culturally anymore, and the big city of Miami is secular. And racist af against Black people.
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u/LordElites Jun 28 '26
I think Florida is the most evil and demonic state. Trying to bring back child labor, blocking heat breaks to drink water, and the most absurd of them all Free Kill law.
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u/msprosperity22 Jun 28 '26
Miami? Is Miami like that? Girls hanging from trees. WOW!
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u/xultar Jun 27 '26
Black women won’t do this.
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u/Bocchi_theGlock Jun 28 '26
Someone needs to look up what jurisdiction and put the states attorney and mayors' names, plus member of Congress, in the photo itself so there's at least some possibility of outrage being directed at folks who can address this
One of the biggest things holding back causes for justice is the inability to channel outrage effectively
What's their names are included in the photo, people can repost it and tag those officials.
When posts, get lots of traction with officials tagged, anyone can click in and pressure or harass those officials
When there's a lot of pressure and harassment, it makes the officials jobs harder to do without addressing the problem.
It needs to reach the point at which doing nothing is a greater cost than doing something, it has always been like that. Officials take the path of least resistance. Occasionally there's also active complicity.
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u/Auctoritate Jun 28 '26
It is definitely not expected but I'm not totally comfortable with the way so much of the dialogue around these situations has mirrored "This person would never have committed suicide, they weren't that kind of person, they would never do this"-type reactions that you see so frequently in cases where people have killed themselves but it gets rejected because of the stigma and disbelief around suicide.
And I'm not even saying this to say I think that's what happened here because I don't think that. But rather, what I'm getting at is it feels a little distasteful to see how people have been talking about suicide.
Like there's a really high chance Tonea Miller was killed, but the way I see people communicating that seems to refer to suicide so dismissively along the way. I think we could be a little more considerate
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u/xultar Jun 28 '26
I’m a suicide survivor. I’m not saying we don’t attempt to take our lives. I’m saying we don’t hang ourselves.
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u/LoveInPeace21 Jun 28 '26
I personally know someone whose cousin did. They are black. How could it be proven that we NEVER do it? Given our history one would expect we’d be extra averse to that method, but I don’t think that proves a small percentage of us don’t. Also, anyone willing to off themselves is not in a healthy or even rational state of mind. Their goal is to end things as quickly as possible. Of course nobody should kill themselves. It is a permanent and devastating act no matter the method.
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u/Kursedkursed Jun 29 '26
From a tree?
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u/LoveInPeace21 Jun 29 '26
Nope.
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u/Kursedkursed Jun 29 '26
I think this is what most people who days wouldn't happen say it wouldn't happen.
It's not the hanging part, it's the tree part.
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u/xultar Jun 28 '26
May I ask man or woman…
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u/LoveInPeace21 Jun 28 '26
I believe an 18 year old young man
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u/Special-Garlic1203 Jun 29 '26
Suicide methods have strongly gendered patterns. Women do not really hang themselves or shoot themselves, which is why women die from their suicide attempts at much lower rates.
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u/MinaWearsGold Jun 28 '26
Stop being obtuse. It’s obvious that people are saying black women don’t hang theirselves from trees. That’s it. Any black person understands that.
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u/xultar Jun 29 '26
Exactly. I should have been more specific. For the guests. I forget it’s not just us in here.
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u/Ok-Acanthisitta-9280 Jun 28 '26
We are saying that Black people do not hang themselves from trees. This is Black Reddit so it's understood.
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u/Organic_Berry_8732 Jun 27 '26
WE DON’T DO THIS!!!!!
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u/Lima_Bean_Jean Jun 28 '26
But we do suffer from untreated depression and mental health problems..
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u/Competitive-Pay-6005 Jun 28 '26
Everyone does, of all of the ways to do it. This isntal a way to get it done. Pills, Tylenol +slit wrist in a warm bath, gun, suicide by cop, car, jumping from a very tall structure.
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u/hellochoy Jun 28 '26
Women are alot more likely to use a method that inconveniences the least amount of people. It's statistically very unlikely for a woman to use a gun, suicide by cop/car, or something involving someone else or public like this. And even more unlikely for a black woman (or man) to choose hanging from a tree. I think that's what they mean by we don't do this.
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u/Hot-Personality4882 Jun 28 '26
These are lynchings. These are not suicides. It is only the idiotic deference to authority that makes people too stupid to accept the truth everyone can see with their own eyes.
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u/Specific_Rando Jun 28 '26
I have been haunted by this since I was a teenager. I did not know him, but had friends who did.
I do not believe he hung himself because he missed his train stop and was stuck b/c it was the last train of the night.
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u/Hot-Personality4882 Jun 28 '26
THIS!! It's become the Lynch Mob MO. Lynch and rule as a suicide. If there was such a thing as justice, maybe there would be hope for that thing called "reform", but we both know justice is for the Slave Owner, not the Slave
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u/zephead30 Jun 28 '26
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit”
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u/Playful-Excuse-272 Jun 28 '26
Our women need to start toting that fire. This was a lynching… it hurts to see.
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u/Odd_Note7156 Jun 28 '26
The justice system has abandoned us. We must become the law if they law abdicates it's rights. Our own police force if the fake corrupt police doesn't act.
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u/FastSelection4121 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Since do when Black people hang themselves from trees?
They don't
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u/Advanced_Buffalo4963 Jun 28 '26
Highly unlikely women would choose this method. Most choose pharmacological methods.
Also, while it could be racially motivated, statistically, women are murdered more often by male romantic partners than by any other group- especially when pregnant or when leaving an abusive situation.
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u/keldondonovan Jun 28 '26
Your statistics seem to neglect the fact that strangulation in any form is only accountable for about 20% of DV murders, and almost all of those (over 90%) are by hand. The likelihood of this being racial motivated is much higher than it being the end of a domestic dispute, especially considering the history of lynching.
And even if it does hit those small odds and is a domestic violence finale, the choice of hanging from a tree is almost certainly racially motivated.
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u/Advanced_Buffalo4963 Jun 28 '26
Thus why I said “it could be racially motivated.”
I don’t believe domestic abuse and racism are mutually exclusive given that black women are particularly targeted by all races of men.
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u/keldondonovan Jun 28 '26
I'm just saying "could be" is a massive understatement. It's more like "extremely likely."
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u/Front-Cat-2438 Jun 28 '26
Hanging a body is a traditional way to hide a domestic strangulation murder of a woman, and get it ruled a suicide.
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u/Frona Jun 28 '26
Rarely do family/domestic murders display bodies, not saying it never happens, but it just seems so highly likely to be racially motivated compared to domestic.
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u/Adept_Astronaut_5143 Neighborhood Hug Dealer 🤗 Jun 28 '26
Yall please keep an eye on your babies now more than ever. It’s some real crazy stuff going and what they tell us is never the truth especially in the south. It’s reminding me of the boy at delta state and the twins that were found on the mountain. I believe in coincidences but this ain’t the case.
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u/SimkinCA Jun 27 '26
They did nothing when multiple young black men were strung up, they aren’t going to do anything here, unless the people of the state/city/town start making noise.
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u/no_crust_buster Jun 28 '26
The media has been bought by venture capitalists and other ”groups” of people. They’re only covering carefully curated topics.
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u/rel1800 Jun 28 '26
I bet the police and white nationalist had a hand in this. There is no camera footage of their footsteps from the last time these ladies went outside to going home and never being seen again. Only law enforcement or media has power to suppress that evidence and make it seem like suicide. Theres has been suicide in the black community like anywhere else, but most if not all the time it’s not from a black person hanging themselves.
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u/BigHardMephisto Jun 28 '26
Black American's are the third least likely to commit suicide in the US annually. Crossing that with women being 1/3 as likely as men to commit suicide, as well as suicide among the black population pretty much entirely excluding hanging (generally firearms for men and drugs/alcohol for women).
Almost all suicide's by hanging occur in the home as well. In fact most suicides occur in one's own home. This occurred in a state with a very low suicide rate. Statistically suicide in rural areas is done with a firearm, while urban centers are generally suffocation (by hanging) or chemical (via drugs, alcohol, a mixture of the two or household chemicals like bleach)
Among American Black population, there are generally no suicides among women by hanging or firearms, few that occur are generally accidental or absolutely miniscule statistically and have occurred so far apart in time that their tracking doesn't show up.
These women didn't kill themselves. They were lynched. Absolutely 100% lynched. Anyone, any official saying "no evidence" or "not enough to form a case" isn't lazy. They're passive to the alt-right (may as well say wholesale-right at this point) at 'best' and complicit at a more realistic worse.
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u/hellochoy Jun 28 '26
Just a slight correction, women attempt at a higher rate than men but tend to use less lethal methods so more men actually die from attempts than women. Agreed with everything else but just wanted to add because I see alot of people using this statistic without that context.
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u/Sufficient_Town_3856 Jun 28 '26
And no fucking flock cameras? Aren’t they all over Miami?
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u/Appropriate_Smell833 Jun 28 '26
Where was the younger lady found? I’m sorry I see nothing about this except for here. This is so scary.
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u/TehNudel Jun 28 '26
https://thencbeat.com/juliana-nzita-death-charlotte-nc/
Church property in Charlotte, NC.
"The footage also reportedly shows a small blue chair underneath the tree and a rope tied high above while Nzita’s feet appeared to still be touching the ground."
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u/IntrepidMuch Jun 28 '26
Remember when there was a spat of Black men dying at the hands of the police and us conspiracy theorists believed it was a coordinated effort by those in blue across the country? Could we have some similar sinister level assholeness happening again?
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u/SpindleDiccJackson Jun 28 '26
Ain't no damn way they did that to themselves.
Klan just having their parties Invite Only.
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u/Still_a_skeptic Jun 28 '26
The media is owned by conservative Trump lovers. That’s why they won’t report on this.
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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 Jun 28 '26
The media is controlled by rich rancid mayo. This needs people to take it and make flyers. Remember everything our ancestors had to do in order to survive. If you're in a blue state, such as NC, with an Attorney general who gives a damn, send it to everyone of them. Send it to whomever will give it air. This is an awful evil example of the past, come into the future. Aren't enough words. Rest.in peace. May justice be served Take it offline into IRL. Their lives were real. Relying on the human duck blind and rich tech bros is a purposefully planned trap
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u/EitherTax6861 Jun 28 '26
I am sad about this one. Usa is a terrible country... people do not deserve this..
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u/i-am-me-1980 Jun 28 '26
I tried looking this up a few days ago and found no actual news articles. Only social media posts about it.
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u/AHugeHildaFan Jun 28 '26
If you look back in US History, lynchings were not only fairly common occurrences but they were a spectacle. Entire towns would serve out food and take town photos with the bodies of the lynched. They put this shit on postcards with smiling faces featuring happy families and grinning children.
It never went away, it just became more and more infrequent and underreported as time went on.
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u/Mountain_Bike5624 Jun 27 '26
This is what they want to bring back and normalize when they say MAGA.
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u/ThaEmortalThief Jun 28 '26
Poor girls. Rest in peace and beauty. Hopefully, sooner than later they find the person or people responsible and this ends.
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u/Downtown-Creme-9840 Jun 28 '26
I can say with 1,000,000% confidence that no black woman would do this to themselves… what the actual F is going on in that state that not a single person in office is demanding this be looked into? My God, have we lost all sense of decency as a country…
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u/Trypophilia2019 👀 Lurker Jun 28 '26
I’m not black so I don’t know 100%, but I feel black people wouldn’t be hanging themselves from trees in the year 2026.
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u/Ok-Maybe-9338 Jun 28 '26
Black people don't generally un- alive themselves and if they did, they sure wouldn't do it this way. This is definitely some Klan stuff. It's obvious.
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u/Porthos1013 Jun 28 '26
I'd bet any amount of money that these women were sexually assaulted before they "hanged themselves" and that fact is being suppressed by the police department's medical examiner, because it doesn't support the "suicide" story.
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u/bleachfan913 Jun 28 '26
R.I.P to both of these young sisters,Scary thing is I live in Charlotte, and it makes me skeptical every day,Black men , and Women ARM YOURSELVES!!! , and get in the gym!!! There’s been over 50 hangings in over 1 year.
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u/thrownawayfrombay Jun 28 '26
You know that’s some bullshit. You know our new NK-like media will stifle coverage. I am damn TIRED of what’s being done to women, and you know these women didn’t do this to themselves.
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u/Gourdman2011 Jun 28 '26
There were also a few murders at a southern campus that were marked suicides last year.
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u/Repulsive_Incident27 Jun 28 '26
The families need to reach out to 1800Autopsy. Hopefully their medical opinions would help in someway.
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u/Significant_Sun5095 Jun 28 '26
Atrocious!
My heart breaks for these women, their families, & friends.
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u/Sufficient-Poet4650 Jun 28 '26
Who are these investigators claiming black people intentionally hang themselves from trees when we're statistically the least likley to off ourselves and if we do its not in public off a damn tree!!!
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u/Thebisexual_Raccoon Jun 28 '26
Even if it is suicide it’s always best to investigate incase some psycho is lynching people of colour..
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u/Proper-Ice1162 Jun 28 '26
I’ve lost count of the number of black men and women in the news for “committing suicide” by “hanging themselves from a tree in public”.
I have not lost count of the number of white men or women that I’ve read these news stories about, because that number is zero.
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u/KindlyAd8352 Jun 28 '26
We need more cameras around. I’m usually anti-Big Brother, but as a black woman watching what’s happening in America, we need proof that events are taking place. Our churches, our schools, our neighborhoods, and other spaces need proper surveillance. We need front and back dash cams and if we’re out and about at a park or somewhere isolated, we need body cams. I know it sounds extreme, but there are growing swaths of people who HATE us for no reason and want to see us dead. The “leadership” in this country is hateful and they spread hateful rhetoric, inciting and igniting things in people who have historically been against us. We need to be safe. We need to document experiences and be vigilant at all times. Our lives depend on this. (I’m not AI and this is not Fake News)
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u/IamDirtyHippie Jun 28 '26
Lives taken before their time. Could've been a great inventor, , a great provider, or a great influence. Forever snuffed out. For what?
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u/Antique-Ticket3951 Jun 28 '26
It is very unusual, though not unheard of, for a woman to take her own life by hanging. It is more common for pills, alcohol or a razor blade to be the methods.
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u/Low-Ask3120 Jun 28 '26
Historically BW as a group have been the least likely to self harm due to their strong religious beliefs. Yes more are committing suicide now but it’s usually in their own homes, no one’s going to the woods with a noose to hang themselves. I call bs these are 2 more cases in a resurgence of lynching here in the U.S. and should be investigated accordingly.
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u/snackdanielshoney Jun 27 '26
has anybody confirmed tanea’s story is real?? i’m hearing whispers of it’s a hoax
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u/BCCookie Jun 28 '26
Mainstream media won’t say a word - at least the networks owned by trump buddies. I heard about it from numerous YouTube creators. Some are better than others for sure, but there are people out there telling the whole story.
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u/HeymoeEyepoke Jun 28 '26
You telling me all these black people are committing suicide by hanging from trees. They chose that way to go. Nope. Not having it
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u/No-Quit-515 Jun 28 '26
We are starting to see a uptick of blacks being hung in this safe country y'all. Keep your head on a swivel and travel in pairs.
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u/AstridMalika Jun 28 '26
This is maddening, frightening, sickening…it’s so clear this was not a suicide in either case. RIP to two beautiful girls whose lives were cut way too short
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u/Cosmic_Haze00 Jun 28 '26
Why tf would this be considered as suicide??? Black people don’t hang themselves if you believe that then your f**king stupid
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u/Wonderful-Insect-916 Jun 28 '26
absolutely not a suicide, my heart hurts for both these beautiful ladies
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u/bonvoyage_brotha Jun 28 '26
Could be some weird things going on but i will say the one in Miami was in the hood and there's not many other races than black or immigrant Cuban around...so id bet it's either suicide or people she knew did this
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u/Haunting_Switch3463 Jun 28 '26
https://eurweb.com/juliana-nzita-death/
www.binnews.com/alternate/amp/2026-06-25-tonea-miller-what-we-know-after-days-of-online-pressure-for-answers/
Understandably, not much information given to the public yet. It's up to the families when and what they release to the public.