I’m not seeing any mainstream media coverage. They’re trying to pass this off as a suicide.
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.
Those are all local news outlets. This is the first I’m hearing of this. I live in Atlanta.
AP News has picked it up now at least.
The third one in the list is Newsweek!
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.
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.
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.
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.
If there was a black man hung in Mississippi, odds are that it was NOT a suicide. This is awful
“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
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
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.
(eg slurs written on the body)
What if, written on the body, was a drawing of that same body hanging from a tree in the style of an old lynching?
That wouldnt demonstrate a racial motivation
This would be the first acknowledged US lynching since '81. 1981.
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.
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…
There have been numerous apparent lynchings in recent years. But they always say “no foul play expected”
Would Epstein have been considered Lynched?
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“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.”
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.
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.
and suggested the case pointed toward self-harm
Why? What suggests this?
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
oh, you mean like lynch lynch?
that reference might be pretty stale, idk
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.
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.
Strange fruit indeed…
I came searching for this comment
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?
https://www.blackenterprise.com/delta-university-hanging-reed-student-mississippi/
Since link seems to be broken right now
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.
Wtf…
Interesting.
