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FERGUSON, Mo. Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose.
Six deaths, all involving men with connections to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, drew attention on social media and speculation in the activist community that something sinister was at play.
Police say there is no evidence the deaths have anything to do with the protests stemming from a white police officer's fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, and that only two were homicides with no known link to the protests.
But some activists say their concerns about a possible connection arise out of a culture of fear that persists in Ferguson 4 ½ years after Brown's death, citing threats mostly anonymous that protest leaders continue to receive.
The Rev. Darryl Gray said he found a box inside his car. When the bomb squad arrived, no explosives were found but a 6-foot (1.8-meter) python was inside.
"Everybody is on pins and needles," Gray said of his fellow activists.
No arrests have been made in the two homicides. St. Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire said witnesses have simply refused to come forward, leaving detectives with no answers for why the men were targeted.
"We don't believe either one was connected to each other," McGuire said, but adding, "It's tough to come up with a motive without a suspect."
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tulipsandroses
(5,122 posts)It certainly seems like someone is trying to scare these folks. Especially when you look at the python placed in the car.
malaise
(268,846 posts)No arrests - Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,315 posts)mountain grammy
(26,608 posts)BadgerMom
(2,770 posts)were white, amirite?
uponit7771
(90,323 posts)... like my ass.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)I'll bet you can. Can you do it without hurting the python? That might be the tricky part.
2naSalit
(86,502 posts)"Coincidence takes an awful lot of planning."
Chin music
(23,002 posts)Sounds to me like it may be a combination. This life is unsustainable to many. Rich folks are doing fine.
Iggo
(47,545 posts)What kind of men were they?
If they were scummy dudes before Ferguson, is it completely out of the question that this number of them would have died like scummy dudes sometimes die, whether or not Ferguson ever happened?