Suspicious Deaths In The Wake Of The Ferguson Protests

[Yithian]

My instinct is telling me this is all coincidence and sensationalism, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that it sounds a mite curious.

Puzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have died​

By JIM SALTER​

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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — 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.​

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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.​

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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.​

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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.​

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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.​

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“Everybody is on pins and needles,” Gray said of his fellow activists.​

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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.​

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“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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PLENTY more (full read required):​

https://www.apnews.com/436251b8a58c470eb4f69099f43f2231​

 

[EnolaGaia]

I saw this story when it first broke. It seems to me it takes some hand-waving to call the set of deaths a cluster, and there's no apparent pattern at all.

Only two of the deaths occurred within 15 months of the protests that serve as a vague connection among the dead, and one of those occurred more than 400 miles away in Ohio.

The next one occurred circa 2.5 years after the protests, and the final two mentioned in the article occurred circa 4 years after the protests.

 

[Yithian]

I saw this story when it first broke. It seems to me it takes some hand-waving to call the set of deaths a cluster, and there's no apparent pattern at all.

Only two of the deaths occurred within 15 months of the protests that serve as a vague connection among the dead, and one of those occurred more than 400 miles away in Ohio.

The next one occurred circa 2.5 years after the protests, and the final two mentioned in the article occurred circa 4 years after the protests.

Not chronologically clustered, but thematically clustered.

Many JFK conspiracies, for instance, posit multiple deaths that are geogaphically and chronologically disparate but, allegedly, all the result of a single series of events.

I'm not saying I accept a conspiracy here, but I don't have difficulty with time and location. Others have already spoken of an atmosphere of paranoia/fear in the Ferguson community over the last few years, which could make such a conspiracy more likely to be believed or, alternatively, more likely to be be true, dependingvon which label one prefers.