A Native American Activist Died in Police Custody and Nobody Is Talking About It by @zakcheneyrice http://t.co/wSmaLc6fhd via @MicNews

— Cat Neshine (@ghostcatbce) July 29, 2015

On July 14 at 10 a.m., authorities at the Neshoba County Jail in Philadelphia, Mississippi, allegedly found Henry dead in his cell. They claimed to have seen him alive for the last time just half an hour earlier, at 9:30. The 53-year-old’s family told Fusion that two of Henry’s ribs had been broken, though his official cause of death remains unclear. The Jackson Free Press reports that his body has been “flown to Florida for an independent autopsy paid for by anonymous donors.”

He’d apparently been arrested for failing to pay an old fine.

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