{"id":1451433,"date":"2022-04-23T15:44:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T19:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1451433"},"modified":"2022-04-23T15:44:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T19:44:39","slug":"emmett-tills-relatives-want-accuser-prosecuted-for-role-in-his-lynching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emmett-tills-relatives-want-accuser-prosecuted-for-role-in-his-lynching\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmett Till\u2019s Relatives Want Accuser Prosecuted For Role In His Lynching"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Femmett-tills-relatives-want-accuser-prosecuted-for-role-in-his-lynching%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1451433&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-514974304.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Relatives of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black teenager who was lynched in 1955 after a white woman accused him of whistling at her, want his accuser prosecuted for her role in his death.<\/p>\n<p>In 1955, Carolyn Bryant Donham accused Till of inappropriate advances, leading to Donham\u2019s then-husband Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam beating Till and shooting him in the head. The two were arrested but acquitted by an all-white male jury in Mississippi in an era before the Civil Rights movement, so no one has been held accountable for one of the most famous false accusations of all time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarolyn Bryant Donham was named nearly 67 years ago in a warrant that accused her in Till\u2019s abduction, even before his mangled body was found in a river, FBI records show, yet she was never arrested or brought to trial in a case that shocked the world for its brutality,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mississippi-kidnapping-emmett-till-39353359ca624e3914144a8e61627649\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities back then reportedly didn\u2019t want to bother Donham since she had two young children.<\/p>\n<p>Till\u2019s relatives told the AP they would prefer Donham prosecuted for murder for her role in Till\u2019s death, but an attorney for the family suggested that since the kidnapping warrant apparently was never dismissed, it could still be used to arrest Donham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis warrant is a stepping stone toward that,\u201d said Jaribu Hill, the attorney representing Till\u2019s relatives. \u201cBecause warrants do not expire, we want to see that warrant served on her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the AP noted, there are numerous issues with attempting to prosecute Donham today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitnesses have died in the decades since Till was lynched, and it\u2019s unclear what happened to evidence collected by investigators. Even the location of the original warrant is a mystery. It could be in boxes of old courthouse records in Leflore County, Mississippi, where the abduction occurred,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Till\u2019s relatives want Donham held responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMississippi is not the Mississippi of 1955, but it seems to still carry some of that era of protecting the white woman,\u201d said Deborah Watts, a distant cousin of Till.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/justice-department-finds-no-proof-emmett-tills-accuser-lied\">reported<\/a> in December that the U.S. Department of Justice said it found no evidence that Donham had ever lied about Till. Federal investigators began looking into whether Donham had lied about what, if anything, actually happened between her and Till. Donham had reportedly recanted her accusation to author Timothy B. Tyson, telling him that she had lied about what Till had done. Tyson claimed that Donham told him, \u201cNothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him,\u201d when speaking about her \u201csorrow\u201d for what Till\u2019s mother went through. Donham reportedly denied ever lying in her testimony, NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/justice-department-closes-inquiry-murder-emmett-finds-no-proof-accuser-rcna7806?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=news_tab\">reported<\/a>. A source with knowledge of the case told the outlet that there were apparently inconsistencies in Tyson\u2019s statements.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson, however, stood by his reporting, telling NBC that Donham was not a reliable witness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarolyn Bryant denies it and avoids talking about it like it was the plague,\u201d Tyson said. \u201cI am standing in the public square telling the truth as I see it based on solid evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that nothing he reported was new, since \u201cwe have long known she was lying.\u201d He told NBC that his book contained pages of documented evidence that the FBI collected when it had re-opened the Till case in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us just look at the evidence as if I had never talked to Carolyn,\u201d Tyson said.\u00a0\u201cThat she lied in court does not depend on her admission of it to me, not at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/case-document\/emmett-till-notice-close-file-0\">press release<\/a> regarding the investigation, the DOJ said it found no evidence Donham had ever lied, closing the case without any arrests. In its case document, the DOJ said it could not prosecute Donham or anyone else because it had \u201cnot uncovered any new evidence that would change its conclusion from its 2004 investigation that it was not able to bring federal charges against [Donham] in connection with Till\u2019s abduction and murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another issue the DOJ faced was that the statute of limitations has run out for all \u201cpotential federal crimes that could apply to Till\u2019s abduction and murder, and there is no other potential basis for federal jurisdiction,\u201d the Department said. This includes prosecuting Donham for allegedly lying on the stand or making false allegations against Till.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <u><a href=\"https:\/\/utm.io\/ueuP8\">Become a member now and join our mission<\/a><\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black teenager who was lynched in 1955 after a white woman accused him of whistling at her, want his accuser prosecuted for her role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":1480231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}