Ben Crump's Latest: Was Black Hanging Victim Lynched?
Why should PBS mention the increasing black suicide rate when they can hint that two blacks found dead by hanging in Mississippi over the last year were racist lynchings?
From PBS Newshour, more gigantic national news about the deaths of obscure black people in Mississippi that lawyer Ben Crump thinks he might be able to milk for money or publicity or just to boost conspiratorial paranoia about white racism:
What we know about the death of Tasia Fortune in Mississippi
Nation Aug 10, 2026 7:46 PM EDT
By — Sophie Bates, Associated Press
By — Terry Tang, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The hanging death of Tasia Fortune, whose body was found outside an abandoned house, has shaken her family and community in Mississippi, where two other people have been found hanging from trees in less than a year.
Police have not indicated whether they consider the 29-year-old Black woman’s death suspicious, saying only that they are actively working “to determine the circumstances surrounding the death.” …
“She did not do this to herself,” Spivey told the outlet. “I know my daughter, and she did not do this to herself.”
On Wednesday, Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes wrote a letter to Mississippi U.S. Attorney Baxter Kruger asking for assistance in the case. In the letter, Stokes referred to Fortune as a murder victim.
Do authorities have any suspects?
Jackson police have commented very little on Fortune’s death. They have not identified any suspects or person of interest.
Local media report that a man interviewed by investigators said he had argued with Fortune but had no involvement in her death. Police have not disclosed how the man, who was arrested last week on an unrelated charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, is acquainted with Fortune.
Obviously, this unnamed felon in possession of a firearm who argued with the 29-year-old Black woman is white, and almost certainly a white Racist. He probably drove nonstop from Sandpoint, Idaho to lynch a random Black woman in Mississippi.
Where were the other hangings in Mississippi?
Fortune’s death comes less than a year after the hanging deaths of 21-year-old Trey Reed, a Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland, and Cory Zukatis, an unhoused white man in his 30s, in Vicksburg.
Police in Cleveland concluded Reed’s death …
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