Cops Say The Hanging Of Tasia Fortune In Mississippi Was Staged
When a Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi, everyone braced for the return of the state's darkest history. The real story took a very different, grim turn.
Finding a young Black woman hanging in a vacant lot in Jackson understandably set off alarm bells across the community. With the state's brutal history, everyone immediately feared the return of horrific racial terror.
Then detectives took the witness stand and flipped the entire narrative: she was murdered somewhere else, and the hanging was staged to throw off the trail over illegal drugs.
Instead of a shadowy hate group, police arrested three local men—Jarques Ratliff, Eric Clark, and Earnest Lloyd Jr.—and charged them with murder. Defense attorneys are already pushing back hard, pointing out there is zero surveillance footage of the lot and no physical proof presented yet of another crime scene.
It takes a uniquely twisted train of thought to believe that mimicking the South's most notorious historical horror is a clever alibi for a drug feud.
Source: WJTV-TV
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