Investigators believe Tasia Fortune was killed in a drug dispute before her body was hanged from a tree in Jackson, Miss., last month in a crime that shocked the nation.
Fortune’s death sparked widespread outrage, with many people drawing comparisons to lynchings that occurred historically in the South. In light of Fortune’s death and other recent cases of black people found hanging, 59 Democratic lawmakers signed a letter to the Department of Justice and FBI demanding federal investigations into the incidents, citing concerns about possible racially-motivated lynchings.
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