After an arrest warrant from 1955 was discovered with Carolyn Bryant Donham’s name on it, a grand jury declined to indict her in Emmett Till’s murder.
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A Mississippi grand jury declined to indict the white woman whose accusation led to the kidnapping and death of Emmett Till in 1955, making it unlikely she will ever be prosecuted for her role in the lynching that fueled the civil rights movement.
A grand jury in Leflore County listened to more than seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses last week before determining there was insufficient evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham, 87, on charges of kidnapping and manslaughter. It's the second time a grand jury has heard evidence against Donham, according to a news release from W. Dewayne Richardson, the county district attorney.
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Smh
Smh as well…30 iq ppl I can’t stand
MISSISSIPPI Grand Jury.. says it all 👎🗑
Oh “you’re playing the races card” Ironic because ppl say when race is brought up… Tend to shy away from it.. you use all of our lingo and act like YOU invented it.. as a Marine.. who joined just after 9/11 I don’t know what I’m looking at anymore
The fall of America
demora, mas acontece; a justiça humana
Another Amber Heard
What a travesty of justice
How so? 70 years later? And she didn’t kill him.
@g bridgman there’s no statute of limitations on murder, accessory to murder, lying under oath, inciting a mob, or filing a false police report… don’t act like justice shouldn’t be serviced no matter the timeframe of any crime. That’s foolish thinking.
Isn’t she Jewish?
Caroline Bryant? I don’t think so.
Does it matter if she’s Jewish?
@Yaz F It always matters
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🤯🤬💔. Evil thing. Still getting away with murder of an innocent child. RIP Emmett. ❤️
She didn’t murder him. Her husband and his step brother did.
@g bridgman she lied and they murdered him. Same thing. Still had a hand in Emmett’s death.
I wouldn’t expect it to go any other way 😞🤷🏾♀️ I take peace in knowing she will have to meet her maker one day and everyone else that played apart in slavery and evilness towards someone because they look different. We all bleed the same color blood we are no better than the next. Everyone that has hate this deep in them will be set free one day and then judge accordingly to their fate in the afterlife. 🙏🏾.
It was the deep south in the mid 50s. Different world.
@g bridgman And it was as wrong then as it would be today
@FirstMusic00 No one had figured that out yet, or not everyone.
@g bridgman Doesn’t make anything she did any better
If you read between the lines it never said he didn’t
There’s tons of information on this case available. It’s easy to research. The article in Look magazine a year later when the two men confessed is even out there.
Nothing! Nothing Nothing excuses the brutality and torture that child went through!! Reading between the lines??!!! Go to HELL 🤬🖕
What is charging her going to accomplish? She’s 88 years old. She didn’t kill Emmett.
Same point Charles Manson was charged. He didn’t kill anyone either.
It’s the principle of it though. This lady is vile and I hope she has to spend the rest of her miserable days inside cooped up and afraid for her life!
Anyone involved in this disgusting event before, during and after are absolute dreadful human beings. It’s vile that no one served a second of time for this desecration of an innocent young man.
Surprise, surprise, surprise. Mississippi is the armpit of the US.
More like the taint
Mississippi ….. probably had some of her distant relatives serving on the grand jury.
The 2022 Mississippi *Klan* jury said nope
Sadly this is exactly what I expected considering the fact that Mississippi didn’t outlaw slavery until 2013.
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Of course they declined. It’s Mississippi and she’s a white woman.