Racist texts despatched to random Black Americans in a number of states, FBI investigating

Law enforcement companies in a number of states say racist textual content messages with nearly equivalent language have been despatched to Black Americans Wednesday telling them they’d been "selected for cotton picking." The texts have been acquired by individuals in states together with Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ohio, New York and Massachusetts, CBS News discovered.

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