While the rest of the nation continued to mourn the loss of five law enforcement officers at the hands of a sniper in Dallas last week, 780 miles to the east, demonstrators in Atlanta protested the events that led up to the Dallas tragedy.
On Monday night, demonstrators took to the streets of Atlanta to protest not only the shooting deaths in Louisiana and Minnesota at the hands of police, but also the death of an unidentified black man found hanging in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park on July 7.
The matter was referred to the FBI, but has since been debunked. The protesters marched to the governor’s mansion, chanting, “If we don’t get no justice, then they don’t get no sleep!”
They neglected to check with the governor’s schedule, however. He was not just out of town but out of the country, sleeping soundly, no doubt.
In front of the Governor’s Mansion:
“If we don’t get no justice, then they don’t get no sleep!” #ATLisReady pic.twitter.com/V7QUPw3fQ1— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) July 12, 2016
Protestors sitting at Peachtree Road outside of Lenox Square @wsbtv #atlisready pic.twitter.com/IB4ivV6tTO
— Carl Willis (@CarlWillisWSB) July 12, 2016
But while most of the attention was directed to the Minnesota and Louisiana shooting deaths, some said more should be concentrated on the hanging death.
Why won’t any of the people who say all lives matter speak on the lynching in #PiedmontPark ?
— islandGalZari (@ZariyahTakinOva) July 10, 2016
#AllLivesDidntMatter when they said the PIEDMONT PARK HANGING was a suicide when we all know it was a lynching.
— Jerome Trammel (@MrJeromeTrammel) July 11, 2016
Part of what led everyone to assume it was a lynching was the urban legend that Piedmont Park was used as a lynching site by the Ku Klux Klan.
#AllLivesDidntMatter when they said the PIEDMONT PARK HANGING was a suicide when we all know it was a lynching.
— Jerome Trammel (@MrJeromeTrammel) July 11, 2016
Reed: We need to deal with urban legend with the Piedmont Park — The KKK was not handing out literature — LIVE: https://t.co/S7bpyd80pH
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) July 11, 2016
But people weren’t necessarily buying it.
@MrJeromeTrammel i know right..just like how robin williams was lynched…smh.always playing the race card even in a LGBT controlled park..
— Tark Neuhardt (@TNeuhardt) July 11, 2016
@MrJeromeTrammel no evidence to prove it…
— Spencer Shipley (@Spencershipley3) July 11, 2016
Suicide is a major problem. Lynchings, fortunately, are not. #PiedmontParkHanginghttps://t.co/dH3jluR7HO
— Mike Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 8, 2016
Investigators chalked it up to a suicide — not a KKK lynching. The Los Angeles Times reported:
There did not appear to be any struggle or any foul play,” a report stated. “The scene and the body seemed to coincide with a suicide.”
At a Friday news conference, Mayor [Kasim] Reed cautioned those spreading social media rumors of Klan involvement at Piedmont Park the night before the hanging. “I’ve been following Internet, social media chatter, and they’re just saying a bunch of things that are not true,” he told reporters. “We have reviewed our video cameras, we have spoken to a number of individuals, and we have not found any evidence that the KKK was in Piedmont Park distributing materials.”
Another Atlanta man, Lennin Johan Torres-Sepulveda, 38, was found hanging in a tree in Beachwood, Ohio, in May which was also claimed to be a lynching. However, his widow said it was suicide — Torres-Sepulveda sent her a photo he’d taken of himself with a noose around his neck just prior to taking his own life.
But many Atlanta residents are still convinced both are lynchings.
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