claim: A video shows two men lynching Kendra Shanice Reid.
origin: A disturbing video purportedly showing two white men lynching a young black woman in a room decoratedÂ with the confederate flag went viral shortly after news broke that Winston-Salem State UniversityÂ studentÂ Kendra Shanice Reid had died from asphyxiation by hanging in April 2017. This video and Reidâ€™s death are not related. The video, which we will not post or link toÂ due to its graphic nature (and the fact that we have not definitively determined that it is a hoax), has been online since at least February 2017 when it was posted by â€œConfederateâ€™s Revengeâ€ on Daily Motion. The original video has been deleted but copies can still be viewed online as of this writing. In the video, two white men beat a young black woman, urinate on her, and then put a rope around her neck and lynch her.Â The text that appears inÂ the video suggests that it was initially posted in responseÂ to January 2017 hate crime in which four black teenagers filmed themselves torturing a disabled white student: < Torture a white kid? Be prepared for this! We wonâ€™t stop until the last ape leaves OUR LAND! This is what you deserve! Your Next.Â > The video didnâ€™t receive much attention when it was first posted online (one sign that it is likely fake), but it went viral three months later, in the wake ofÂ Kendra Shanice Reidâ€™s death.Â Reid was found in a wooded area, not a room, and a medical examiner ruled her death a suicide. Some social media commentators noticed that the woman in the video resembled porn star TrazcyÂ Kush. However, we were not able to confirm the womanâ€™s identity, nor locate the original video. Â