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Arrest made over the death of black woman found hanged from tree in Mississippi (www.bbc.com)

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That arrest today is an important development in this investigation, but it is not the conclusion," Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said on Friday. "This case remains active."

Fortune's death has worried locals in Jackson, a majority-black city in a state with a history of racial violence and lynching.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I had no idea. God I HATE IT HERE!

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago

I've been reading stories like these on and off for years. Always in the south, always black, always dismissed as suicide. This appears to be the first where they actually investigated it at a federal level and surprise, it was murder.