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Mother demands answers, weeks after black woman found hanging from Mississippi tree
Her demands for information about what happened to Tasia Fortune have been echoed by shocked locals.
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Christy Spivey told the BBC she was angered by the investigative hold-ups over the death of her daughter, Tasia Fortune
The mother of a black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi, has told the BBC she is still waiting for answers from officials more than a month later.
Her demands have been echoed by a community in the southern US state that has been left shocked and angry.
Fortune's death was the third incident in Mississippi in less than a year where police found someone dead and hanged from a tree.