“I understand there’s over 1,000 hits on TikTok (accusing) the sheriff’s office of not being transparent, not providing information to the family and that is not true,” Brame said. “There’s been information put out there that there’s a lynching in Vance County. There is not a lynching in Vance County. The young man was not dangling from a tree. He was not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope, so therefore, it was not a lynching here in Vance County.” No, you see, we only define lynching in very narrow terms.

lynch | lin(t)SH | verb [with object] 1 (of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial: her father had been lynched for a crime he didn’t commit | (lynching as noun) : a city full of lynchings and riots.

Oh, you mean that definition of lynching?! No, why would you define it like that, get outta here.

“Brame said his office is waiting for the toxicology report to come back, which could take a little longer.

"We're going down every avenue, every aspect of all the information. “

Could this be translated as: we are looking for any excuse to not label this what it really is 🤔

If true crime podcasts are anything to go off, we know police in the south overall do very poor jobs investigating deaths.

it's not a lynching if it doesn't happen in Lynchburg region of Tennessee. Otherwise it's just a sparkling hatecrime.

Also what in the actual fuck is wrong with this country? Didn't we fight a war over this?

Isn't the sheriff an elected official? Get rid of them.

He obviously tripped and hung himself trying to run through those good people in white hoods