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Cases of hanged Black people in the South evoke America's history of lynching

Cases of hanged Black people in the South evoke America's history of lynching

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September 17th, 2026

Cases of hanged Black people in the South evoke America's history of lynching

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The death of a Black woman found hanged from a tree in Mississippi has evoked painful memories of the grim history of lynching that was carried out across the American South.

๋ฏธ์‹œ์‹œํ”ผ์ฃผ์—์„œ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์— ๋ชฉ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ์ฑ„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋œ ํ•œ ํ‘์ธ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ์ฃฝ์Œ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚จ๋ถ€ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ ์žํ–‰๋œ ๋ฆฐ์น˜๋ผ๋Š” ์•”์šธํ•œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณ ํ†ต์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

The body of Tasia Fortune, aged 29, was discovered on August 3 behind an abandoned house in Jackson, the state capital.

ํƒ€์‹œ์•„ ํฌ์ถ˜(29)์˜ ์‹œ์‹ ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ 8์›” 3์ผ ์ฃผ๋„ ์žญ์Šจ์˜ ํ•œ ํ๊ฐ€ ๋’คํŽธ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

In addition, Zach Ratliff, 51, who is also Black, pleaded not guilty to a murder charge on Monday.

๋˜ํ•œ ํ‘์ธ์ธ ์žํฌ ๋ผํ‹€๋ฆฌํ”„(51)๋Š” ์›”์š”์ผ ์‚ด์ธ ํ˜์˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฌด์ฃ„๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Police and prosecutors have not disclosed a suspected motive, and they stated that further arrests are anticipated.

๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๊ณผ ๊ฒ€์ฐฐ์€ ์˜์‹ฌ๋˜๋Š” ๋™๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ฒดํฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Regardless of the circumstances of this case, for many Black people, the imagery of ropes and nooses evokes the legacy of lynching and vigilante violence against Black Americans, which carries with it profound pain and trauma.

์ด ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ์ •ํ™ฉ๊ณผ ๋ฌด๊ด€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ, ๋งŽ์€ ํ‘์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐง์ค„๊ณผ ์˜ฌ๊ฐ€๋ฏธ์˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ํ‘์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฆฐ์น˜์™€ ์ž๊ฒฝ๋‹จ ํญ๋ ฅ์˜ ์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ํ™˜๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊นŠ์€ ๊ณ ํ†ต๊ณผ ํŠธ๋ผ์šฐ๋งˆ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ˜ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Brad Franklin, an activist in Jackson, said of Fortune's death, "In 2026, Black people here in the South are feeling and experiencing the same emotions they felt in 1956 and 1966, and that should not be happening."

์žญ์Šจ์˜ ํ™œ๋™๊ฐ€์ธ ๋ธŒ๋ž˜๋“œ ํ”„๋žญํด๋ฆฐ์€ ํฌ์ถ˜์˜ ์ฃฝ์Œ์— ๊ด€ํ•˜์—ฌ "2026๋…„์— ์ด๊ณณ ๋‚จ๋ถ€์˜ ํ‘์ธ๋“ค์€ 1956๋…„๊ณผ 1966๋…„์— ๋А๊ผˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ์ •์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ผ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜์„œ๋Š” ์•ˆ ๋œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Yet this is Mississippi, and because of our state's racist history, our skin has been considerably hardened in order to endure it.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๊ณณ์€ ๋ฏธ์‹œ์‹œํ”ผ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฃผ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‹Œ ์ธ์ข…์ฐจ๋ณ„์ ์ธ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํ”ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฒฌ๋ŽŒ๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋‹จ๋ จ๋˜์–ด ์™”๋‹ค.

Editor's note: September is National Suicide Awareness Month.

ํŽธ์ง‘์ž ์ฃผ: 9์›”์€ ์ „๊ตญ ์ž์‚ด ์ธ์‹์˜ ๋‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This article contains discussions about suicide.

๋ณธ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ž์‚ด์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

If you or someone you know needs help, you can reach the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the United States by calling or texting 988.

๋ณธ์ธ์ด๋‚˜ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ „๊ตญ ์ž์‚ด ๋ฐ ์œ„๊ธฐ ์ƒ๋ช…์ค„์— 988๋กœ ์ „ํ™”ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฌธ์ž๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‚ด ์ด์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Fortune's mother, Christy Spaivey, stated that she does not believe race had any bearing on her daughter's death, and revealed that she herself is white while Fortune's father is Black.

ํฌ์ถ˜์˜ ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ์ธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šคํ‹ฐ ์ŠคํŒŒ์ด๋น„๋Š” ๋”ธ์˜ ์ฃฝ์Œ์— ์ธ์ข…์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์—ฐ๊ด€์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ๋Š” ๋ฏฟ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ŠคํŒŒ์ด๋น„ ๋ณธ์ธ์€ ๋ฐฑ์ธ์ด๊ณ  ํฌ์ถ˜์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋Š” ํ‘์ธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Spivey stated, "I believe this is an extremely private and deeply personal matter," and alleged that someone acquainted with Fortune was involved.

์ŠคํŒŒ์ด๋น„๋Š” "์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทนํžˆ ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ, ๊ทนํžˆ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์•ˆ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํฌ์ถ˜๊ณผ ์•„๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ด์ธ ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๋ฃจ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Over the past two years, roughly six Black women and men have been found hanged across the South.

์ง€๋‚œ 2๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋‚จ๋ถ€ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ ์•ฝ 6๋ช…์˜ ํ‘์ธ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด ๋ชฉ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ์ฑ„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

In some cases, police swiftly ruled the deaths suicides, which has often stirred a skepticism deeply rooted in history whenever investigators present limited evidence that is insufficient to rule out the possibility of foul play.

์ผ๋ถ€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์€ ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž์‚ด๋กœ ํŒ๋‹จํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ˆ˜์‚ฌ๊ด€๋“ค์ด ๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋ฐฐ์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ๋ถˆ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ ์ œํ•œ์  ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•  ๋•Œ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋‚ด๋ฆฐ ํšŒ์˜๋ก ์„ ์ข…์ข… ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

Sean Joe, a professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis and a nationally recognized authority on suicidal behavior among Black people, said, "Let the evidence show," adding, "But if... you arrive at a definition or a conclusion of suicide, you have to present the evidence for it."

์„ธ์ธํŠธ๋ฃจ์ด์Šค ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ณต์ง€ํ•™ ๊ต์ˆ˜์ด์ž ํ‘์ธ ์ž์‚ด ํ–‰๋™ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์ „๊ตญ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ถŒ์œ„์ž์ธ ์ˆ€ ์กฐ๋Š” "์ฆ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์ž"๋ฉฐ "ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋งŒ์•ฝ... ์ž์‚ด์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ •์˜๋‚˜ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Spivey stated that she is convinced her daughter could not possibly have taken her own life.

์ŠคํŒŒ์ด๋น„๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋”ธ์ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋ชฉ์ˆจ์„ ๋Š์—ˆ์„ ๋ฆฌ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Spivey said, "Never. Even if she could have climbed that tree, no, no, she would never, never, never have done it."

์ŠคํŒŒ์ด๋น„๋Š” "๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ค๋ น ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์— ์˜ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค ํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๊ฒฐ์ฝ”, ๊ฒฐ์ฝ”, ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Demetrius Eugene Fleming, 38, on August 21.

๋…ธ์Šค์บ๋กค๋ผ์ด๋‚˜์ฃผ ๋กœ์–ด๋…ธํฌ๋ž˜ํ”ผ์ฆˆ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์€ 8์›” 21์ผ ๋ฐ๋ฉ”ํŠธ๋ฆฌ์šฐ์Šค ์œ ์ง„ ํ”Œ๋ ˆ๋ฐ(38)์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ง ๊ฒฝ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Police Chief Lawrence Wiggins stated on Tuesday that he is awaiting the medical examiner's report.

๋กœ๋ Œ์Šค ์œ„๊ธด์Šค ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์„œ์žฅ์€ ํ™”์š”์ผ ๊ฒ€์‹œ๊ด€์˜ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

In February, police forces from Cobb County in the US state of Georgia discovered the body of 21-year-old Kyle Bassingha in a park.

Im Februar entdeckten Polizeikrรคfte des Cobb County im US-Bundesstaat Georgia die Leiche des 21-jรคhrigen Kyle Bassingha in einem Park.

Although investigators stated that there were no indications of a crime, the death of Bassingha, according to Lisa Cupid, chair of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners, "reminded many people of slavery and the era of Jim Crow segregation."

Obwohl die Ermittler angaben, dass keine Hinweise auf ein Verbrechen vorlรคgen, habe der Tod Bassinghas, so Lisa Cupid, Vorsitzende des Cobb County Board of Commissioners, โ€žviele Menschen an die Sklaverei und die ร„ra der Jim-Crow-Rassentrennung erinnertโ€œ.

The death of Trey Reed, a 21-year-old Black student at Delta State University in Mississippi in September 2025, was ruled a suicide, and the death of 39-year-old Denoris Richardson in Colbert County, a rural area of Alabama, in September 2024 was likewise ruled a suicide.

2025๋…„ 9์›” ๋ฏธ์‹œ์‹œํ”ผ์ฃผ ๋ธํƒ€ ์ฃผ๋ฆฝ๋Œ€ํ•™์—์„œ ํ‘์ธ ํ•™์ƒ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ด ๋ฆฌ๋“œ(21)๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋งํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ์ž์‚ด๋กœ ํŒ์ •๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , 2024๋…„ 9์›” ์•จ๋ผ๋ฐฐ๋งˆ์ฃผ ์‹œ๊ณจ ์ง€์—ญ์ธ ์ฝœ๋ฒ„ํŠธ ์นด์šดํ‹ฐ์—์„œ ๋ฐ๋…ธ๋ฆฌ์Šค ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋“œ์Šจ(39)์ด ์‚ฌ๋งํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด ์—ญ์‹œ ์ž์‚ด๋กœ ํŒ์ •๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Richardson's wife, Lee, said she does not believe her husband took his own life, and news reports stated that, as in other cases, an independent autopsy was conducted and concluded that his death was consistent with hanging.

๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋“œ์Šจ์˜ ์•„๋‚ด ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‚จํŽธ์ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋ชฉ์ˆจ์„ ๋Š์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๋“ค์—์„œ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ„ ๋ถ€๊ฒ€์ด ์‹ค์‹œ๋˜์–ด ๊ทธ์˜ ์ฃฝ์Œ์ด ๋ชฉ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ์ผ์น˜ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ณด๋„๋Š” ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In an interview with ABC News, Lee Richardson said that although her husband suffered not only from chronic asthma but also from other respiratory problems that could trigger anxiety attacks, "he would never have even imagined that this would be the way he would leave this world."

๋ฆฌ ๋ฆฌ์ฒ˜๋“œ์Šจ์€ ABC ๋‰ด์Šค์™€์˜ ์ธํ„ฐ๋ทฐ์—์„œ ๋‚จํŽธ์ด ๋งŒ์„ฑ ์ฒœ์‹๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ ๋ฐœ์ž‘์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ˜ธํก๊ธฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์•“๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , "๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ด ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋– ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์กฐ์ฐจ ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ"์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to a report by the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, more than 4,400 lynchings took place across the United States between the Reconstruction era and World War II.

์•จ๋ผ๋ฐฐ๋งˆ์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ๋‘” ์ดํ€„ ์ €์Šคํ‹ฐ์Šค ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์˜ ๋ณด๊ณ ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์žฌ๊ฑด ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ œ2์ฐจ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Œ€์ „์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ „์—ญ์—์„œ 4,400๊ฑด์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ๋ฆฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The lynching of Emmett Till, a teenager accused in Mississippi in 1955 of making advances toward a white woman, helped spark the civil rights movement.

1955๋…„ ๋ฏธ์‹œ์‹œํ”ผ์—์„œ ๋ฐฑ์ธ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์—๊ฒŒ ์ถ”ํŒŒ๋ฅผ ๋˜์กŒ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ˜์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์€ ์‹ญ๋Œ€ ์—๋ฐ‹ ํ‹ธ์ด ๋ฆฐ์น˜๋‹นํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์€ ๋ฏผ๊ถŒ ์šด๋™์„ ์ด‰๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Carlos Hill, a professor of African and African American studies at the University of Oklahoma and the author of "Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory," said, "These were public, and deliberately so, intended to convey terror not only to the individual and their family but to the entire community."

์˜คํด๋ผํ˜ธ๋งˆ ๋Œ€ํ•™์˜ ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๋ฐ ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ต์ˆ˜์ด์ž ใ€Œ๋ฐง์ค„ ๋„ˆ๋จธ: ๋ฆฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ํ‘์ธ ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ๊ธฐ์–ต์— ๋ฏธ์นœ ์˜ํ–ฅใ€์˜ ์ €์ž์ธ ์นด๋ฅผ๋กœ์Šค ํž์€ "์ด๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์˜๋„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ ์ด์–ด์„œ ๊ฐœ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ „์ฒด ๊ณต๋™์ฒด์— ๊ณตํฌ๋ฅผ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

In September, approximately 60 lawmakers signed a letter urging the Department of Justice to investigate the hanging deaths of Black individuals and to enforce the 2022 Emmett Till Antilynching Act.

9์›”์— ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋ฉด์„œ ์•ฝ 60๋ช…์˜ ์˜์›์ด ๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ถ€์— ํ‘์ธ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ๋ชฉ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆผ ์‚ฌ๋ง ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์„ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  2022๋…„ ์—๋ฐ‹ ํ‹ธ ๋ฐ˜๋ฆฐ์น˜๋ฒ•์„ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์„œํ•œ์— ์„œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This law designates lynching as a federal hate crime.

์ด ๋ฒ•์€ ๋ฆฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ฆ์˜ค ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค.

In a statement, U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley said, "At this moment, when anti-Blackness and emboldened white supremacy are running rampant, we cannot stand idly by while strange fruit, in the form of Black bodies, hangs from trees across the country."

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•˜์›์˜์› ์•„์ด์•„๋‚˜ ํ”„๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์„ฑ๋ช…์—์„œ "๋ฐ˜ํ‘์ธ์ฃผ์˜์™€ ๋Œ€๋‹ดํ•ด์ง„ ๋ฐฑ์ธ ์šฐ์›”์ฃผ์˜๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์Šน์„ ๋ถ€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ‘์ธ ์‹ ์ฒด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ดํ•œ ์—ด๋งค๊ฐ€ ์ „๊ตญ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์— ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ ค ์žˆ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ๊ฐ€๋งŒํžˆ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to Representative Pressley's office โ€” she is a Democratic congresswoman from Massachusetts and the leading author of this letter โ€” the Department of Justice has confirmed receipt of the letter but has not yet responded.

๋งค์‚ฌ์ถ”์„ธ์ธ ์ฃผ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋‹น ์˜์›์ด์ž ์ด ์„œํ•œ์˜ ์ฃผ๋„์  ์ž‘์„ฑ์ž์ธ ํ”„๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ ์˜์›์‹ค์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋ฒ•๋ฌด๋ถ€๋Š” ์„œํ•œ์„ ์ˆ˜๋ นํ•œ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ ์•„์ง ์‘๋‹ตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒํƒœ์ด๋‹ค.

Trent Thompson, 58, who lives in Florence, Alabama, said that recent hangings and deaths of Black people have led the Black community to discuss the death of Nolan Xavier Wells this summer.

์•จ๋ผ๋ฐฐ๋งˆ์ฃผ ํ”Œ๋กœ๋ Œ์Šค์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” 58์„ธ ํŠธ๋ ŒํŠธ ํ†ฐ์Šจ์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ํ‘์ธ๋“ค์˜ ๋ชฉ๋งค๋‹ฌ๋ฆผ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋ง ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋“ค์ด ํ‘์ธ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์˜ฌ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋†€๋ž€ ์ž๋น„์— ์›ฐ์Šค์˜ ์ฃฝ์Œ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Wells was an 18-year-old Black youth who set out on a boating trip with friends on July 4 to an island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but he did not return with them.

์›ฐ์Šค๋Š” 18์„ธ์˜ ํ‘์ธ ์ฒญ๋…„์œผ๋กœ, 7์›” 4์ผ ๋ฏธ์‹œ์‹œํ”ผ ๊ฑธํ”„ ํ•ด์•ˆ ์•ž๋ฐ”๋‹ค์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์„ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณดํŠธ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๋– ๋‚ฌ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ทธ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

His body was found two days later.

๊ทธ์˜ ์‹œ์‹ ์€ ์ดํ‹€ ๋’ค์— ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Thompson said that, as scrutiny of the investigation intensified amid the state's history of racist violence and distrust of law enforcement, suspicions were stirred within the Black community about numerous cases involving Black deaths.

ํ†ฐ์Šจ์€ ์ฃผ์˜ ์ธ์ข…์ฐจ๋ณ„์  ํญ๋ ฅ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋ฒ• ์ง‘ํ–‰ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถˆ์‹ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ˆ˜์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฉด๋ฐ€ํ•œ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๋ฉด์„œ, ํ‘์ธ ์‚ฌ๋ง๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ‘์ธ ์‚ฌํšŒ ๋‚ด์— ์˜ํ˜น์ด ์ด‰๋ฐœ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He said, "I know what skin I have."

๊ทธ๋Š” "๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ํ”ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์กŒ๋Š”์ง€ ์•ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

September 17th, 2026

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