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Mississippi's first local data center moratorium passed with a unanimous exemption for 1,100 acres of airport land the city can't tax. Three separate developers are moving on Jackson simultaneously while the council pretends to pause.
29-year-old Tasia Fortune was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant home in Jackson, Mississippi. Five days later, police have released almost nothing — no cause of death, no suspects, no answers. A city councilman wrote federal prosecutors calling it a murder. This is the latest in a pattern of Black people found hanging from trees across the American South.
An independent autopsy has ruled one-year-old Kohen Wiley's death a homicide caused by a shotgun wound to the torso. The findings prove the Senatobia police officer was not in harm's way when he fired into the vehicle — yet the MBI stalls, the officer remains unarrested, and the community demands justice.
Sources identify Sergeant Hunter Foster of the DeSoto County Sheriff's Office as the officer who killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Senatobia Walmart. Weeks before the shooting, Foster was the subject of a racial slur complaint filed by a fellow officer — a complaint the department ignored.
Two police officers responded to the same crime — shoplifting diapers. One bought them. The other killed a one-year-old. The choice between those two outcomes is the choice American policing makes every day.
Senatobia, Mississippi police shot into a vehicle outside a Walmart, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley and critically injuring another person. The alleged crime: shoplifting diapers.
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