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Posted on 07/08/2022 1:51:24 AM PDT by Morgana
Emmett Till protesters stormed a senior living facility in search of the woman who has been accused of setting a lynch mob on him after a 1955 arrest warrant was unearthed in a Mississippi courthouse.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, now in her 80s, of Raleigh, North Carolina, reportedly accused Till of whistling at her in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi, in 1955.
A week later, the 14-year-old Till was abducted, tortured, fatally shot and dumped into the Tallahatchie River, where his body was found swollen and mutilated three days later. His open casket shocked the nation.
Donham's husband, Roy Bryant, and half-brother, JW Milam, were arrested for his lynching, but later acquitted. The pair eventually admitted guilt, but couldn't be prosecuted due to double-jeopardy laws.
Last week, the unserved arrest warrant for Donham was found in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse, causing Till's family and activists to once again call for justice.
You cannot ignore this,' said Priscilla Sterling, Till's cousin, according to WRAL. 'If this is what’s needed to do for us to change our mindset, our behaviors and attitudes in the society, then this will do it. This will do it. Execute the warrant.'
One of the protesters later told a local media outlet: 'I do understand that Ms. Bryant is in her mid-to-late-80s, but understandably, this is a crime she committed when she was 22. Sixty years later, it’s time for her to be held accountable.'
Donham's daughter-in-law, Marsha Bryant, said the older woman 'had nothing to do with it.' She also claimed her relative was 'appalled' by Till's murder.
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They are the useful idiots. This is an election year. That is what this is about. BLM is being activated again.
On the one hand, you have a point... on the other hand, *should* there be a statute of limitations on incitement to murder a child?
The justice system recognizes the ability to take culpability. She is not able to do that, because of her dementia.
But,,,, we must do something to energize the Democrat voter base! November is coming! You don’t see the press rehashing all the racist comments Joe Biden has made over the last fifty years, do you?
Do you agree with John Hinckley Jr. being free?
I don’t think she needs to be in a cushy nursing home, dementia or not. She needs to be in a state mental facility, as with anyone not mentally competent to stand trial for their crimes. If not to punish her, then to send the message that it doesn’t matter how long it takes, if you knowingly cause the death of a child, we will come for you and your days will be thoroughly unpleasant.
That and she never killed the kid. She just said the kid cat-called her or something. The lynch mob killed the kid, didn’t they do time?
Well it’s like this, he’s no longer a threat to Ronald Reagan.
I would hope he’s gotten over Jody Foster by now.
Conspiracy to commit murder - she told the men in her life and IIRC, she egged them on to teach the kid a lesson. They said as much but could not be charged due to double jeopardy.
Also on that note if Hinkley was out how come Lynette Squeeky Fromme was let out?
You may have missed this part:
“Donham’s husband, Roy Bryant, and half-brother, JW Milam, were arrested for his lynching, but later acquitted. The pair eventually admitted guilt, but couldn’t be prosecuted due to double-jeopardy laws.”
“Conspiracy to commit murder - she told the men in her life and IIRC, she egged them on to teach the kid a lesson. They said as much but could not be charged due to double jeopardy.”
Okay I hate to be devil’s advocate here but thinking like a lawyer how do we know she wanted him “killed”? Maybe she thought they would just beat him up? Or as we say today “kick his ass”? Teach him a lesson and things went too far?
“Donham’s husband, Roy Bryant, and half-brother, JW Milam, were arrested for his lynching, but later acquitted. The pair eventually admitted guilt, but couldn’t be prosecuted due to double-jeopardy laws.”
I now think I remember something about that. Is this all they did in Mississippi back in the day? Get angry at someone and lynch them? Sheese.
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