A young black man died in a rural area of Vance County, North Carolina, but the media has apparently used details of his death to advance a racial narrative.
Around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Vance County deputies were notified about a body located near Vanco Mill Road just outside Henderson, North Carolina, a city of 15,000 residents about 45 miles north of Raleigh.
‘The young man was not dangling from a tree. He was not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope.’
Though the deceased man had no ID on him, investigators later learned that his name was Javion Magee, a 21-year-old truck driver from the Chicago area. He was found sitting with his back against a “medium-sized” tree and a rope around his neck. The other end of the rope was affixed to the tree.
The detail about the rope sparked many sensational headlines. “Black man found dead with rope around his neck, NC sheriff says,” read the headline from WCNC. “Black man found dead against tree with rope around his neck in NC: ‘Not a lynching,’ sheriff says,” said another from ABC11.
The News & Observer went even further and referenced lynching in its headline, even as the outlet noted Magee’s death may in fact be a suicide: “As suspicions swell that Black man was lynched in NC, warrant outlines evidence of suicide.” […]
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