Unable to win elections with their horrible ideas, and hoping to scare black voters ahead of the mid-term elections Democrats, with help from race hustlers and fake media, are claiming that the deaths of several black people found hanging in different parts of the country this year and last were lynched by those mythical, but ever present, “white supremacists.” Eight of these deaths have been ruled suicides and the other victim was murdered by two black men.
MORE LIES FROM DEMOCRATS DESIGNED TO SCARE BLACKS
Earlier this month, US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) warned of “racial terror” and “widespread modern-day lynchings” in the United States as she joined dozens of fearmongering Democrats demanding that the DOJ and FBI investigate hanging deaths of black Americans. Ignoring the facts behind each death, AOC alleges there is systemic racial bias at the very agencies which investigated the deaths.^
NOTE: Fellow America-Last lawmaker Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) called the hangings a “national crisis” in a letter addressed to Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel. AOC and Pressley both ignored the fact that most of the death investigations were headed by black officials. Of course, they showed no interest in “lynchings” of white people.
TREY REED, 21, CLEVELAND, MISSISSIPPI
On September 15, 2025, Delta State University football players found 21-year-old student Trey Reed hanging from a tree on campus.“There are videos,” Delta State Director of Public Safety Mike Peeler, who happens to be black, said on Sept. 17, 2025. “They are in the hands of the investigative team.” Reed’s family stated that Trey’s girlfriend at the time of his death provided investigators with suicidal text messages from him the evening before his body was found. “The message read that he was going to hang himself,” Sophia Reed said.
The official ruling by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be suicide. An independent second autopsy was arranged by the race grifting attorney Ben Crump and funded by Colin Kaepernick’s “Know Your Rights Camp Autopsy Initiative;” however, Crump never shared the results with Reed’s family nor with the public. Crump has not returned multiple calls from the family, either. Apparently, the second autopsy confirmed the death was a suicide, so Crump could not promote it as a “lynching by white supremacists”
TASIA FORTUNE, 29, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old single mother of four, was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 3rd. A Investigators believe Fortune was killed over a drug dispute before her body was hanged. Two black men, Jarques Ratliff, age 51, and Earnest Lloyd, Jr., age 25, have been arrested and charged with the murder of Fortune. The police chief is black.
JUSTICE KAI JAMES, 21, ALBANY, GEORGIA
Justice Kai James, age 21, was found hanging outside a cafeteria at a Job Corps center in Albany, Georgia, on June 21st. While police initially classified the case as suspicious and noted no signs of foul play, subsequent investigative findings (including surveillance footage) and the medical examiner conclusions officially determined it to be a suicide. The police chief is black.
KYLE BASSINGA, 21, MARIETTA, GEORGIA
Kyle Bassinga, a 21-year-old man, was found dead in a wooded area of Fair Oaks Park in Marietta, Georgia, on February 18th. His death was investigated by the Cobb County Police Department, which reviewed surveillance footage, witness statements and other evidence. Bassinga entered the wooded area alone, and authorities found no evidence indicating that another person was involved in his death. “Based on the totality of the evidence, investigators have determined that Mr. Bassinga was alone at the time of his death, and there is no indication of foul play,” officials with the Cobb County Government wrote in a March 24th press release. The police chief is white and the county sheriff is black.
TO’NEA NICOLE MILLER, 27, CHERRY PARK, FLORIDA
To’Nea Nicole Miller, age 27, was found dead near Gwen Cherry Park in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on June 18th. Authorities characterized her death as an apparent suicide and said investigators found no physical evidence of violence or foul play at the scene. The Sheriff of Miami-Dade County is a Hispanic woman. The Miami-Dade Police Department Director is a black woman.
JULIANA UMBA NZITA, 16, CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
Juliana Umba Nzita, a 16-year-old foreign national from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was found dead near a church in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 8th. Police have maintained that investigators found no evidence of an assault or foul play. The Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner ruled the death a suicide, making that the official determination. The Police Chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Estella Patterson, is black.
MAN, 32, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
On August 15th, at approximately 3:07 p.m., Raleigh police officers and medical personnel responded to 318 S. McDowell St. after receiving a report of a man hanging from a tree. When first responders arrived, they removed the individual from the tree and immediately began life-saving measures. Despite their efforts, the man was pronounced dead at the scene. Video evidence confirmed that the man in question died by suicide, according to Raleigh Police Chief Rico Boyce, who happens to be black. The victim’s mother told authorities that he had been “struggling with mental health issues.”
EARL SMITH, 58, ALBANY, NEW YORK
On June 11, 2025, officers responded to reports of an individual found deceased. Upon arrival, officers located a 58-year-old Earl Smith who was confirmed deceased at the scene. Following a thorough investigation, and based on the findings from the Medical Examiner’s Office, the death was ruled a suicide. There is no evidence to indicate that any criminal activity was involved.
TORRANCE MEDLEY, 39, BROOKFIELD, WISCONSIN
Police from Brookfield Police Department were first called on November 13, 2025 to a location near the Brookfield Hills Golf Course. Brookfield Police Chief Chris Garcia said they located an “individual with feet on the ground, knees bent, kneeling almost all the way down to the ground, next to a tree. There was a strap around the subject’s neck that was attached to a tree branch, and it appears the subject used body weight to cause asphyxiation.”
The investigation concluded that it was a suicide, according to Brookfield’s police chief. The physical findings indicated death by asphyxiation with no other signs of bodily trauma or evidence suggesting any other individuals were present. The official autopsy also confirmed suicide; however, Medley’s family raised funds for an independent autopsy and forensic analysis which confirmed that his death was by suicide.
NOTE: For about a century, Democrats in the south lynched black Americans to terrorize them from voting. Until the 1930s, virtually all blacks were Republicans, because it was the Republicans who freed the slaves AND Democrats who created the Ku Klux Klan.
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Democrat Party Created Ku Klux Klan To Terrorize Blacks & Republicans
Republicans, Conservatives, Trump Supporters, White Americans: Tired of being called “racist” and/or being accused of supporting the Democrat-created Klan just because you support our US Constitution & Bill of Rights? Not sure how to respond to such stupidity? In honor of Black History Month, here is the history of the Klan’s birth, activities & goals…
^The usual suspects signed the letter in order to scare black voters and increase racial tensions: “The series of deaths raises significant suspicion of foul play, given the role of lynching in our nation’s history,” reads the letter signed by nearly 60 Democrats, including U.S. Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), Yvette D. Clarke (D-N.Y.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Summer Lee (D-Pa.), LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). “Each of their deaths should be treated with the utmost seriousness and investigated without bias by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).”
The author, Diane L. Gruber, is a First Amendment advocate who writes for Substack. She calls her Substack newsletter America First Re-Ignited. Follow me on X @DianeLGruber.
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