Senator Mississippi 'in front row in public suspension'

jackson - In the American state of Mississippi and on social media, a controversy has arisen after a racist statement by the Republican senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. During a campaign meeting she laughed 'in the front row, with a public suspension.' On the video you can hear how her audience laugh at this statement.

Mississippi was notorious between 1880 and the 1960s as the state where most blacks were murdered by racist gangs through hanging. Death sentences were also often performed in public by hanging.