Less than 24 hours after news broke that a Black man, Robert Fuller, was found hanging from a tree in Los Angeles, outlets are reporting that another Black man, Malcolm Harsch, was found dead in similar circumstances less than two weeks ago (Via BETNews)
, community members confronted city officials at a contentious news briefing Friday, asking why they were quick to label his death a suicide and demanding an independent autopsy.
“Robert was a good little brother to us and it’s like everything they have been telling us has not been right ... and we just want to know the truth,” Fuller's sister Diamond Alexander said to the paper. “Amidst the current racial tension and following the protesting the night prior to his body being discovered we were truly troubled to learn of his passing, particularly of how his body was discovered,” Harsch’s family wrote. “He was an African American male, whose body was found hanging in a tree in Victorville California!”
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