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QuoteAccording to #ProjectQ out of #Atlanta
#Repost @shegossipz Reports The young man that police said took his own life in Piedmont Park ? a suicide that gained national attention and fueled social media outrage ? was a 22-year-old LGBT college student who lived in Midtown and faced blowback from his family for being gay.
Michael George Smith Jr., a native of Hackensack, N.J., was found hanging from a tree near the Charles Allen Drive entrance to the park about 4:30 a.m. on Thursday. On Tuesday, Atlanta police identified the man as Smith, who is black, in an effort to quash social media speculation that his death was a "modern-day lynching." Smith's suicide came during a week of protests in Atlanta and across the nation over recent police shootings and Mayor Kasim Reed faced questions about Smith's death from protesters on Friday.
But the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office ruled that Smith's cause of death was asphyxiation by hanging and the manner of death was suicide.
Smith tied a white rope to a branch of the tree and then around his neck and hung himself, according to an incident report from the Atlanta Police Department. He had earbuds in his ears and was wearing a backpack, along with a grey t-shirt, black jeans and a pair of black Converse Chuck Taylors, police said.
Police also found a large wheeled garbage can next to the tree with a shoe print on its lid that matched Smith's shoes. He also had light pollen on his shirt and marks on his jeans from climbing the tree, police said.
There were no defensive wounds on Smith's body and no signs of a struggle, police said in the incident report.
Just minutes before Smith's body was found, he posted a haunting message on his Facebook page ? where he identifies as London Jermaine.
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I dunno
Could be either way
Sad though
Ain't no suicide.
That IG caption... :plzstop: well get to the point then
I'd start with researching the meaning of London Jermaine and go from there
Did he have any enemies? Cops are so slow to release info
Hmm (http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d113/adriansgums/16787CD8-3205-4803-B8F4-3BA21B93F145_zpsdyzm8njn.png)
He kinda posted that he was doing something
But why is there new activity ?
Anything is possible..
In holland there was a guy who called the cops and say he was robbed by a guy with a gun. He told the cops what he looked like (he described himself). When the police arrived he acted like he was going to shoot them (even tho he didn't have a gun) and the police killed him. Now his family said he was killed because he is black..and they think he is another example for the black lives matters movement.
This other kid fell from his bike and said his face got beat up by racists..
I am sure these things are just single events but it is very sad and confusing. Try explaining it to the family and friends.