
Episode #3282
BLM Activist interrupts Jackson City Council over a “lynching problem" In Mississippi
**Activist interrupts Jackson City Council over a “lynching problem” that the facts still haven’t produced.** Celina Charles drove down from Little Rock, skipped the public-comment signup, and hijacked Tuesday’s meeting to accuse city and state leaders of ignoring what she called a lynching epidemic in Jackson. She named Tasia Fortune and Demartravion “Trey” Reed, demanded answers, and kept talking while Council President Vernon Hartley banged the gavel. Police Chief RaShall Brackney walked her out. No cuffs. Mission accomplished: scene made. **What’s actually on the record** - Tasia Fortune, 29, mother of four, found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house on Road of Remembrance on Aug. 3. State medical examiner completed an autopsy weeks ago; results still not released to JPD. Chief Brackney says the case has been worked as a homicide from day one and warns against calling these “serial” race incidents. A person of interest, Terrence Anderson, was already locked up on a felon-in-possession charge after an argument with Fortune. - Trey Reed, Delta State student, found hanging on campus in September 2025. State ME ruled suicide. Family and activists still reject it. - Rasheem Carter (Taylorsville, 2022) also gets folded into the same narrative. - Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes wants the U.S. Attorney in the Fortune case and keeps invoking Emmett Till. He has no federal response yet. Charles says she’s coming back for a march Friday focused on Fortune, Reed, “and all these lives.” Flyer has a hashtag and no location. Downtown Jackson is the default. South Jackson, West Jackson, and Northside Drive—where the bodies actually pile up—are not on the itinerary. Jackson remains one of the deadliest cities in America, overwhelmingly Black-on-Black. Officials sat on a simple public statement for a month while the lynching rumor did the work of keeping eyes off the homicide spike. Brackney finally said the quiet part: a lot of misinformation, don’t treat these as a connected racial campaign. That should have been the first presser, not the one after an out-of-town activist crashed council. False lynching claims don’t just waste oxygen. They torch whatever’s left of race relations and give every actual killer a convenient fog.

