The Associated Press Gets Community Noted for Its Story on Murdered Mississippi Woman Tasia Fortune– townhall.com
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It’s incredible to watch the Democrats and their media allies lie about a string of deaths in the South that involved black victims hanging from trees. As Townhall reported, many of those deaths were ruled suicides. They are all tragic losses of life, but they are not indicative of a return of lynchings.
One of those deaths was, in fact, a murder. Mississippi woman Tasia Fortune was found hanging from a tree on August 3. Democrats like Ro Khanna, AOC, and Ayanna Pressley all pounced on this tragedy for political gain, and the media were glad to assist. Back on August 13, CNN said Fortune’s murder “evokes a very painful history.”
Correspondent Omar Jimenez, best known for his “fiery but mostly peaceful” coverage of BLM riots, said, “A lot we still don’t know here, but obviously the raw image of a black person hanging from a tree in the American South evokes a very painful history.”
The AP just repeated that narrative yesterday, saying Fortune’s murder “stirred distressing memories of the grim history of lynchings across the U.S. South.” The last widely-recognized lynching in America happened in 1981, two years before this writer was born.
The death of Tasia Fortune, a Black Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree on Aug. 3, has stirred distressing memories of the grim history of lynchings across the U.S. South. pic.twitter.com/sCmPZt6C8K
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 21, 2026