Hanging Questions and Broken Justice: The Tasia Fortune Case The arrest of Jarques Ratliff in connection with the murder of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last month, raises disturbing questions about the pace of justice in America.
It took over a month for authorities to acknowledge that Fortune's death was a homicide, and this delay is part of a larger pattern.
Similar cases have emerged across the country, where Black bodies are found dangling from trees, often with authorities dragging their feet to acknowledge the obvious: these are hate crimes.