The Associated Press still cannot resist turning a Jackson homicide into a morality play about the Jim Crow South.
Leave it to the mainstream media to exploit a horrific situation to push an ugly agenda that Democrats need to keep alive in an election year.
Tragically, a 29-year-old black mother was found hanging from a tree in August, and rather than lead with the fact that police later charged a 51-year-old Black man who knew her with murder, the wire service reached for the lynching template.
Because of course it did.
And the AP is really pushing it:
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
The death was ruled a homicide. An arrest followed. The suspect is not a mystery Klansman from 1935. That detail apparently arrived too late for the preferred narrative.
Luckily, there is a Community Note on their post:
Jackson police arrested 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff, a Black man with an association to Tasia Fortune, for her murder on Sept. 11 after the death was ruled a homicide.
Then X seriously piled on ...
Just came for the ratio of a fake news outlet trying to stir up calls of racism as opposed to telling people what actually happened.
— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) September 22, 2026
This is the suspect btw pic.twitter.com/jbgBb2fIUf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 22, 2026
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There's a reason the AP didn't share his picture. Just sayin'.
Oh look… the news organization who shared offices with Hamas is lying again.
— Sean Spicier - Former Tango Dancer (Parody) (@sean_spicier) September 22, 2026
Shocker.
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