N.C. teen's hanging death ruled a suicide; mother says it was a lynching Lydia Petree 4th pd

In Bladenboro, NC, a mother is convinced her son was lynched and didn't commit suicide, even though that's what people are believing. The mother says she will believe he committed suicide if proof is given to her, but that has yet to happen. She says she's long lost confidence in the Bladenboro Police Department and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.The last time Lacy saw and heard her son, Lennon age 17, was August 28. He went to take a walk that night and his family never saw his alive after that. Just before 7:30 the next morning, he was found hanging from the frame of a swing set in the center of a mobile home community. Medical documents said his body was covered in fire ants. Lennons brother also believes his was lynched, regardless of it being declared a suicide. In the wake of his death, some wondered whether Lennon had been killed because he was in an interracial relationship with a 31 year old white woman. Many agree, due to his stature, he would not have been able to pull off this attempt alone. Lacy says the belt he was hung with was NOT his belt. There were many pieces of evidence that did not align with a suicide, like the belt and some shoe size evidence. Although we still do not know whether it was a lynch or a suicide, the family is just doing their best to keep afloat.

This is another example of racial inequality that has been appearing recently more than usual. It makes me so depressed to think of the fact that people are still behaving this way in the world because I thought we passed this stage of history throughout the years. This racial inequality should have ended when the emancipation proclamation was issued and taken into action.