so it would appear that a black person saw it? and so that means the woman in question did not lie about it.
There were a number of young black people in the store. Till was showing off for his cousins. He allegedly grabbed her around the waist and said something like, “Don’t be scared, baby, I’ve been with white girls before.”
Carolyn was scared enough to run for the pistol in her car; the black kids were scared enough by the transgression to grab their cousin and run. I think the whistle was when he was leaving, more bravado, but not the initial offense.
Till was taller and heavier than Carolyn Bryant. There probably wasn’t even a phone in the store, way out in the boonies.
Carolyn and her sister in law decided not to tell their husbands and set them off, in the account I read.