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I keep hearing that there's a white supremacy problem in America and that white people are lynching black people in droves. It's so bad, apparently, that the media (and children's YouTuber Ms. Rachel) has spent weeks arguing that black people are getting hanged across the nation for the color of their skin. Anyway ... Why did NBC News leave the mugshots out of their post?? .... If these men are guilty of hanging Tasia Fortune, 29, at an abandoned house in Jackson, the just thing to do would be to execute them by the same manner. Unless the libs would...

Coroner identifies woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson home The Hinds County coroner has identified Tasia Fortune as the woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant home in Jackson earlier this week. Jackson police declined to release details that might explain how Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman, ended up in the manner she was discovered Monday that evoked memories of the South’s history of lynching. The coroner’s office said her family has been notified. Her body was sent to the Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy. LaToni Fortune told Mississippi Today on...

Mississippi authorities have arrested a 51-year-old man on a murder charge after an official homicide ruling in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black mother of four found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home last month. The arrest follows weeks of intense media attention and widespread online discussion regarding the circumstances surrounding Fortune’s death in a state with a historic legacy of racialized violence. But law enforcement officials confirmed that the suspect taken into custody is Jarques Ratliff, a Black Jackson resident who had a prior personal connection with Fortune.