One of the most fucked up headlines I've ever seen. “There is blood on your hands. Not just Hunter Foster, but everyone that is complicit in the cover-up, including [Mississippi] Attorney General Lynn Fitch, and everything that happens as a result,” said Marquell Bridges, a Mississippi activist who is president of the Building Bridges Coalition. The officer identified as the subject of the investigation, Hunter Foster, is white. In July, Mississippi Today reported on internal complaints showing that Foster faced accusations of making a racially offensive remark to a coworker days prior to Wiley’s shooting. Additionally, two previous incidents in which Foster was accused of police misconduct in court cases surfaced after the shooting. One of those cases was dismissed; the other ended in a confidential settlemen "In this incident, the Attorney General's Office found the use of force was justified," Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch wrote in a short statement. After Joe Biden won the 2020 election and Donald Trump refused to concede while he and his allies made claims of fraud, Fitch joined in the lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election. In 2021, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, she requested that the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, which she called "egregiously wrong" and argued that the Court should allow a new Mississippi state law banning abortions after 15 weeks to come into effect. Fitch has argued that a ban on abortion would empower women. The governor there is called Tate Reeves. Mississippi has some of the most restrictive laws in the U.S. for pre-Election Day voting, and in March 2021, Reeves repeatedly refused to acknowledge that Biden was "legitimately and lawfully elected" or that the 2020 election was free and fair. In April 2021, Reeves said, "There is not systemic racism in America." Earlier that month, he had declared April "Confederate Heritage Month" in Mississippi. In March 2022, Reeves declared April "Confederate Heritage Month". He has done this every year of his term. In May 2022, Reeves repeatedly refused to deny that he would ban contraception in Mississippi when questioned by journalist Jake Tapper. Reeves used his 2020 budget proposal to appeal to the conservative base. Echoing Trump, he proposed allocating $3 million to a "Patriotic Education Fund", saying, "across the country, young children have suffered from indoctrination in far-left socialist teachings". After Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election, and Trump refused to concede, Reeves supported Trump-backed lawsuits to throw out the election results in several states Biden won, where Trump and his allies made false claims of fraud. This is America.