• CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    One of the kids that was chasing him said Justin (the deceased) was “going back to Africa” or some such racist nonesense after losing him, then an hour later Justin walked back to his house and went inside alone.

    According to an autopsy report, Johnson’s cause of death was complications of sickle cell disease, which the teen’s father confirmed he was diagnosed with. A coroner said Johnson also suffered from cardiomyopathy.

    Sounds like a stressed event but the father and the headline want me to think they lynched him or something. The police implied they might charge the teens if they knew about his pre existing condition

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      4 months ago

      The news media manufactures outrage for both ends of the political spectrum. They’ll lead liberals to believe a child dying of disease was curb stomped by 15 year old neo nazis, and they’ll the lead the right to believe kids are going to school in fur suits and shitting in litter boxes.

      They just want clicks. Who cares what it does to our country.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah seems like maybe there’s more stuff on social media or something, but as reported doesn’t sound criminal…