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On February 20, 2019, Major Joe Perkins of the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office announced that the case would be closed and that there was no evidence of foul play. [7] The relationship between Horsford's race and her death has been a subject of controversy and debate and a race-based dimension to her death has been implied by family and media.
Forsyth is a city in Taney County, Missouri, United States. The population was 2,730 at the 2020 census. [5] It is the county seat of Taney County. [6] The town is part of the Branson, Missouri Micropolitan Statistical Area. Forsyth is located on Lake Taneycomo on U.S. Route 160. [7]
The racial makeup of the county was 96.22% White, 0.35% Black or African American, 0.87% Native American, 0.34% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.74% from other races, and 1.42% from two or more races. About 2.42% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
In 37% of the encounters, the subjects who were injured or killed were Black. Across the state, Black people make up less than 12% of the population, according to the U.S. Census.
The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless.
Spearheaded by a group of local pastors, a scholarship for descendants of a 1912 Forsyth County, Ga., racial cleansing hopes to begin to right a multi-generational wrong.
This is a list of the 50 U.S. states, the 5 populated U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia by race/ethnicity. It includes a sortable table of population by race /ethnicity. The table excludes Hispanics from the racial categories, assigning them to their own category.
Following Reconstruction, the 12 years after the Civil War, Forsyth County was home to about 12,000 residents, including a relatively small but growing population of Black people, dozens of whom ...