Relatives of Emmett Till are asking authorities to reverse their decision to close an investigation of his 1955 lynching and instead prosecute a white woman at the center of the case.
Deborah Watts, second from right, a cousin of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and lynched after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in her family store in rural Mississippi, hands Mississippi Attorney General Office representative Wayne Lynch, a poster and accompanying thumb drive that allegedly has almost 300,000 signatures on a petition seeking a renewed probe of the 1955 lynching, Friday, March 11, 2022, in Jackson, Miss.
“Time is not on our side,” Watts, who lives in Minnesota and heads the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, said during a news conference that included a saxophone serenade of a civil rights anthem at the Mississippi Capitol. The Justice Department announced in December it was ending its renewed investigation into the killing of Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed after witnesses said he whistled at Donham, then known as Carolyn Bryant, at a family store where she worked in rural Money, Mississippi.Federal officials had reopened the investigation after a 2017 book quoted Donham as saying she lied when she claimed Till accosted her.
The FBI investigation included a talk with one of Till’s cousins, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., who previously told The Associated Press in an interview that he heard Till whistle at the woman, but the teen did nothing to warrant being killed.
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