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众议员 Ayanna Pressley 牵头的信件中提及的绝大多数案件，均被执法部门或法医判定为自杀
作者：Charles Creitz，福克斯新闻
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纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹（Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez，简称AOC）周五警告称美国存在“种族恐怖”和“广泛的当代私刑”，她与数十名民主党人一道，要求司法部和联邦调查局对美国黑人上吊死亡事件展开调查。
近期多起案件的官方调查结果显示，执法部门或法医已将死亡判定为自杀，至少一起近期死亡案件仍在以谋杀案进行调查。
AOC指控这些机构存在系统性种族偏见，而同为进步派议员的马萨诸塞州民主党众议员 Ayanna Pressley 在她牵头的致相关机构的信件中，将此类上吊事件称为“国家危机”。
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“今年美国已有10起 reported 黑人上吊事件，我很自豪能签署Pressley议员的信件，以应对这些广泛存在的当代私刑行为，制止这种种族恐怖主义，”奥卡西奥-科特兹在X平台上发文声援这一呼吁。
Pressley在信中警告称，“在美国，人们发现黑人被吊在树上”，并坚称：“我们不能坐视不管，任由‘奇怪的果实’（注：指被私刑吊死的黑人）挂在全国各地的树上。”
这封致司法部长托德·布兰奇（Todd Blanche）和联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）的信件，由Pressley、奥卡西奥-科特兹以及约50名民主党人联名签署。他们要求“对美国境内每一起黑人个体上吊死亡事件展开彻底、透明且全面的联邦调查”，并指出数十年来联邦机构未能充分调查此类死亡案件。
家人确认在 Ayanna Pressley 丈夫名下住宅中遭枪击身亡的年轻女子身份
2026年的一起案件涉及一名失踪的21岁亚特兰大男子。据亚特兰大NBC附属机构报道，他后来被发现吊死在科布县的一个公园树上，官员排除了他杀可能性，认定其死亡为自杀。
另一起2026年的案件涉及密西西比州三角洲州立大学学生德马特拉维翁·里德（Demartravion Reed）。官方“认定死因为上吊，死亡方式为自杀”。
据报道，当时这起案件重新唤起了人们对埃米特·蒂尔（Emmett Till）谋杀案的记忆。1955年，这名黑人少年在被诬告与一名白人女子调情后，在案发地点附近被白人男子绑架并杀害。
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Grio网站关于Pressley信件的报道还提及了纽约州奥尔巴尼一名58岁男子和威斯康星州布鲁克菲尔德一名39岁男子的上吊死亡事件。
奥尔巴尼警察局表示，厄尔·史密斯（Earl Smith）的死亡被“判定为自杀”，调查人员“未发现”任何犯罪活动证据。
“奥尔巴尼警察局注意到社交媒体上有人担忧此次事件涉及犯罪活动，这无疑引发了公众的担忧，”该部门表示。
据《沃基沙县自由报》援引布鲁克菲尔德警方负责人的话，对威斯康星州这名男子死亡案的初步调查也显示为自杀。
据报道，至少有一起案件仍在以谋杀案进行调查。
美国有线电视新闻网周四报道，塔西娅·福琼（Tasia Fortune）被发现吊死在密西西比州杰克逊市一所废弃房屋外。据多篇报道，当局随后讯问了她其中一名孩子的父亲特伦斯·伯纳德·安德森（Terence Bernard Anderson），并以无关的武器指控将其逮捕。
AOC抨击“受压迫”的特朗普州 却吹嘘纽约市服务 尽管该市存在50亿美元赤字和交通犯罪激增
纽约州民主党众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹，2025年9月11日在美国国会大厦外与记者交谈。（Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images）
议员们的这种描述在社交媒体上遭到了批评。
“这些社区备注越来越多了，”一名批评者说道，当时X平台的众包更正功能标注了多篇驳斥奥卡西奥-科特兹言论的通讯社报道和媒体链接。
“应该对故意在社交媒体上撒谎的行为施以某种处罚，尤其是对于政客来说，”另一名用户写道。
前能源部官员马特·范·斯沃尔（Matt Van Swol）在X平台上发帖称：“在最近一起‘黑人女性被私刑’事件中，媒体故意遗漏了该案的主要嫌疑人是她的黑人男友。如今美国没有白人在私刑杀害黑人。”
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前参议院幕僚马特·惠特洛克（Matt Whitlock）补充道：“每一起死亡都是悲剧，但如果这些案件中只有一起确实是谋杀案，那你觉得‘广泛’一词究竟是什么意思？你恐怕没能恰当地传递出‘种族恐怖’这一观点。”
Ayanna Pressley 于2025年3月9日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的SXSW大会暨艺术节“生殖革命：与Ayanna Pressley议员对话”主题分会场发表讲话。（Amy E. Price/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images）
X平台的众包社区备注功能也向读者指出了几起案件中的执法部门和法医调查结果，称其在2025年和2026年确认的备受关注的上吊死亡案件中，大多数已被判定为自杀，仅有一起仍在以谋杀案调查。
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当被置评请求时，Pressley的发言人里卡多·桑切斯（Ricardo Sanchez）指引福克斯新闻数字频道回到议员们致布兰奇和帕特尔的信件，特别是其中一条提醒他们“国会在2022年通过了《埃米特·蒂尔反私刑法案》，以确保司法部和联邦调查局有权全面调查可疑死亡事件并追究个人责任”。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系奥卡西奥-科特兹、司法部和联邦调查局征求置评。
本文作者在宾夕法尼亚州阿伦敦出生并长大，自2013年起在福克斯新闻纽约和华盛顿分社工作。
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AOC’s ‘modern-day lynchings’ claim torn to shreds online as Black hanging case findings tell a different story
September 11, 2026 12:04pm EDT / Fox News
Most cases referenced in the letter led by Rep Ayanna Pressley were ruled suicides by law enforcement or medical examiners
By Charles Creitz, Fox News
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., warned Friday of “racial terror” and “widespread modern-day lynchings” in the U.S. as she joined dozens of Democrats demanding that the DOJ and FBI investigate hanging deaths of Black Americans.
Multiple official findings in several recent cases show that law enforcement or medical examiners ruled the deaths suicides, while at least one very recent death remains under a homicide investigation.
AOC alleges there is systemic racial bias at the agencies, while fellow progressive lawmaker Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., called the hangings a “national crisis” in a letter to the agencies that she spearheaded.
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“This year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the U.S. I’m proud to have signed onto Rep. Pressley’s letter to address these widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X in support of the call.
Pressley warned in her letter that “Black folks are being found hanged in America” and insisted: “We cannot stand by while strange fruit hangs from trees across the country.”
The letter, addressed to Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, was signed by Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez and about 50 Democrats. They demanded a “thorough, transparent, and comprehensive federal investigation into every hanging death of a Black individual across the United States,” arguing that federal agencies have failed for decades to adequately investigate such deaths.
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One 2026 case involved the death of a 21-year-old Atlanta man who had gone missing. He was later found hanging from a tree in a Cobb County park, where officials ruled out foul play and deemed the death a suicide, according to Atlanta’s NBC affiliate.
Another 2026 case involved Delta State University student Demartravion Reed in Mississippi. Officials “determined the cause of death to be a hanging and the manner of death as suicide.”
At the time, the case reopened old memories of the murder of Emmett Till, according to reports. Till was a Black teen kidnapped and murdered by White men not far from the site after he was falsely accused of flirting with a White woman in 1955.
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A Grio report on Pressley’s letter also referenced the hanging deaths of a 58-year-old man in Albany, N.Y., and a 39-year-old man in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
The Albany Police Department said Earl Smith’s death was “ruled a suicide” and investigators found “no evidence” of criminal activity.
“The Albany Police Department is aware of concerns posted on social media suggesting that criminal activity was involved with this incident, which has understandably caused public concern,” the department said.
A preliminary investigation of the Wisconsin man’s death also indicated suicide, according to Brookfield’s police chief cited by the Waukesha County Freeman.
At least one case remains under homicide investigation, according to reports.
Tasia Fortune was found hanging outside an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi, CNN reported Thursday. Authorities later questioned Terence Bernard Anderson, the father of one of her children, and arrested him on unrelated weapons charges, according to several reports.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 11, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The lawmakers’ characterization also drew criticism on social media.
“Those community notes are stacking up,” one critic said, as X’s crowdsourced correction indicator included several wire reports and media links disputing Ocasio-Cortez’ claims.
“There should be some sort of penalty for willfully lying on social media, especially for a politician,” another claimed.
Former Energy Department official Matt Van Swol posted to X, “In the last ‘lynching’ of a Black woman, the media conveniently left out the prime suspect in the case was her Black boyfriend. Zero White people are lynching Black people in America today.”
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Former Senate staffer Matt Whitlock added that “every death is a tragedy, but what do you think ‘widespread’ means if only one of these was actually a homicide. Not sure you’ve landed the point about ‘racial terror’ with this.”
Ayanna Pressley at the Featured Session “Repro Revolution: A Conversation with Rep. Ayanna Pressley” during the SXSW Conference & Festivals held at the Austin Convention Center on March 9, 2025, in Austin, Texas.(Amy E. Price/SXSW Conference & Festivals via Getty Images)
X’s crowdsourced Community Notes feature also pointed readers to law-enforcement and medical-examiner findings in several of the cases, stating that most high-profile hanging deaths it identified in 2025 and 2026 had been ruled suicides and that one remained under homicide investigation.
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When reached for comment, Pressley spokesperson Ricardo Sanchez directed Fox News Digital back to the lawmakers’ letter to Blanche and Patel, specifically a line reminding them that “Congress enacted the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in 2022 to ensure the DOJ and FBI are empowered to fully investigate suspicious deaths and hold individuals accountable.”
Fox News Digital reached out to Ocasio-Cortez, the DOJ and the FBI for comment.
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