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00:00A horrible story about a modern-day lynching is going viral, but it didn't actually happen.

00:11The story centers around a young, black college student named Trey Reed, who tragically died

00:17by suicide recently at Delta State University.

00:21During a Monday afternoon press conference on the campus of Delta State University, it

00:25was announced a body of 21-year-old Demartravian Trey Reed of Grenada, a freshman at DSU, was

00:32found hanging from a tree near the pickleball courts not far from the campus cafeteria.

00:39Campus officials, including the head of police, Michael Peeler, who is, it's worth noting,

00:44a black man, maintained from the beginning that there was no evidence of foul play.

00:50The Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office performed an autopsy and reached the same

00:55conclusion, ruling the death a suicide.

00:58Yet across TikTok, Twitter, and elsewhere on social media, activists and influencers maintained

01:05and insisted that this was actually a modern-day lynching, a racist hate crime that somehow

01:13shows what's wrong with modern-day Trump America or something.

01:17Now, fake news and misinformation is going viral yet again, with claims a new independent

01:24second autopsy, funded by Colin Kaepernick, somehow proved that this was, in fact, a hate crime.

01:30There's a lot of bias in the autopsy.

01:33Here's one popular TikTok video pushing this claim.

01:36A second independent autopsy funded by Colin Kaepernick revealed blunt force trauma to the

01:41back of Reed's head.

01:42These findings potentially conflict with the initial ruling that his unaliving was self-inflicted.

01:46Meanwhile, a tweet that received more than 2 million views similarly claimed, quote,

01:52they lynched a black man, and if it weren't for Kaepernick paying for a private autopsy,

01:56many would have believed the official statement.

01:59Police lie.

02:00Authority figures lie.

02:02We as people have to demand accountability.

02:05There's just one problem with this whole narrative.

02:08The second autopsy, it does exist, but it hasn't actually been released.

02:13As local fact-checkers at the newspaper, the Clarion-Ledger pointed out, no one knows what

02:19is or isn't in it because the findings haven't been made public.

02:24So all these claims about what's in the autopsy are just baseless speculation or intentional

02:30misinformation.

02:31And for now, all the evidence we have to go by suggests that nothing nefarious happened.

02:36No matter what, of course Trey Reed's death is a tragedy, but it's a shameful disgrace

02:43that so many left-wing influencers and wannabe criminologists would exploit his death to push

02:50a baseless victim narrative and needlessly inflame racial tensions in America just for clicks.

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