Posted on 07/12/2018 5:04:57 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal 1955 killing in Mississippi shocked the world.
A Justice Department report to Congress says the agency is reinvestigating Till's slaying after receiving what it calls "new information."
Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago, was kidnapped from his uncle's home in the town of Money and killed after he wolf-whistled at Carolyn Donham, a shopkeeper.
Three days later, his mutilated body was found in the muddy Tallahatchie River, weighted down with a cotton gin fan. His left eye was missing, and his right eye was dangling on his cheek. The body was identified only by a ring he was wearing.
Two men -- Donham's then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam -- were charged with murder but acquitted in the slaying of Till. The men later confessed to the crime in a magazine interview, but weren't retried and are now dead.
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So even after the people that did it confessed about what they did, some of you really actually hate blacks just that much to say “well I’m sure he did something”?
How fricking sick of a son of a b*tch must you be to post that on FR?
$ 4 donuts everybody involved in the murder were Democrats
1955 My guess is that the unsub in this case is long since dead. If the FBI has decided to breakaway from trying to topple the duly elected President, I suggest they concentrate on more recent cases, for example - an illegal email server, and uranium one!
“Two men — Donham’s then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam — were charged with murder but acquitted in the slaying of Till. The men later confessed to the crime in a magazine interview, but weren’t retried and are now dead.”
Oh yoo hoo, Jeff, it’s 63 years later...did you just wake up? The case has already been resolved and we have more pressing things to do.
A great media-intensive Hollywood presentation, obviously intended to enflame, precisely as we saw with Trayvon and Mike Brown.
The well-oiled, ravenous Grievance Elite macine was just getting started.
Same with Rodney King, too, who went on to an amazing blue streak of arrests and died in a pool after a days-long drug binge.
Would he, too, rot if left in the pool?
Why, yes.
Even “the guy’s wife” didn’t say that. All the witnesses said he whistled at her.
Where’s that Not This Sh*t Again guy when you need him?
Sessions will next reopen the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Anything to run out the statute of limitations for Hillary.
Murder has no statute of limitations.
Nothing can really be done in the case because everyone involved is dead.
The FBI reopening it won’t change it.
how about Jerry Marks?..how about the boys on the Track?...how about Seth Rich?...how about VINCE FOSTER?
That wound was healing nicely. Time to pick the scab off.
A 1955 murder isn’t something that concerns people.
There are a lot of unsolved cold cases. So what?
Great point!
Her “wolf whistle” claim came at a point in sexual history when if a woman was raped the popular view was that she had been permanently dirtied in some sense;
‘spoiled”
Ergo “wolf whistled”, not raped.
TRUMP DID IT!
His cousin remembered that whistle the rest of his life. Such a sad story.
I agree. The two men who did it confessed. However, the investigation will probably be centered on why they were not convicted. Crooked law enforcement.? Jury tampering?
Now... re-open the Seth Rich murder
No white jury was going to convict them! They would have been targets. The black witnesses were shepherded out of the state after testifying.
What did he really do? Just curious, really.
In 1955 Mississippi, they didn’t mince words about what a Black kid did. If anything, they’d report it worse than it was.
If the story was that he whistled at the woman and paid with his life, that’s exactly what happened.
The Democrats and quite likely KKK members sent a message to other Black youth.
I wonder how much crime went down in Trayvon’s neighborhood after his demise
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