Last week, we reported that the body of a 21-year-old man was discovered in a wooded area of Fair Oaks Park in Marietta, Ga., and that the Cobb County Police Department confirmed that investigators found no evidence of foul play and have “determined the death is being investigated as a suicide.” Now, the victim has been reportedly identified as Kyle Bassinga, a Black man, and people, especially Black people, are, once again, left with more questions than answers regarding a pattern of Black people found hanging across the country, and those deaths being ruled or investigated as suicides soon after they are reported.
From 11 Alive:
Four days after Bassinga was found in the park, people visiting that have been there before said they are still searching for answers. One resident told 11Alive’s Sefenech Henok: “Somebody had to see something, somebody had to hear something and everything and everybody is just quiet about it,” adding that while anything is possible, “do I believe throughout the history of this country that that young Black man did that to himself? I’m going to say no.”…