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On 6/29/2022 5:45 PM, Governor Swill wrote:

In article <XnsAC9F93AA93B58nh@95.216.243.224>
<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

Note to AP. Please review the work of your "Black..." proofer
and editor. Hire someone who can speak, read and write English
properly without bias.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching a Mississippi courthouse
basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager
Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white
woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want
authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.

A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham — identified
as “Mrs. Roy Bryant” on the document — was discovered last week
by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box,
Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The
Associated Press on Wednesday.

She is complicit in Till's death. *Lock her up*

Documents are kept inside boxes by decade, he said, but there
was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29,
1955, might have been.

“They narrowed it down between the ’50s and ’60s and got lucky,”
said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine.

The search group included members of the Emmett Till Legacy
Foundation and two Till relatives: cousin Deborah Watts, head of
the foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts. Relatives want
authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham, who at the time
of the slaying was married to one of two white men tried and
acquitted just weeks after Till was abducted from a relative’s
home, killed and dumped into a river.

“Serve it and charge her,” Teri Watts told the AP in an
interview.

Keith Beauchamp, whose documentary film “The Untold Story of
Emmett Louis Till” preceded a renewed Justice Department probe
that ended without charges in 2007, was also part of the search.
He said there’s enough new evidence to prosecute Donham.

Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-
old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money,
Mississippi. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till
whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of
Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.

Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to
the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham
was publicized at the time, but the Leflore County sheriff told
reporters he did not want to “bother” the woman since she had
two young children to care for.

Now in her 80s and most recently living in North Carolina,
Donham has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution.
But Teri Watts said the Till family believes the warrant
accusing Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence.

“This is what the state of Mississippi needs to go ahead,” she
said.

District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, whose office would
prosecute a case, declined comment on the warrant but cited a
December report about the Till case from the Justice Department,
which said no prosecution was possible.

Contacted by the AP on Wednesday, Leflore County Sheriff Ricky
Banks said: “This is the first time I’ve known about a warrant.”

Banks, who was 7 years old when Till was killed, said “nothing
was said about a warrant” when a former district attorney
investigated the case five or six years ago.

“I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the
DA and get their opinion on it,” Banks said. If the warrant can
still be served, Banks said, he would have to talk to law
enforcement officers in the state where Donham resides.

Arrest warrants can “go stale” due to the passage of time and
changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly
wouldn’t pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to
serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the
University of Mississippi.

But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant “absolutely” could be an important stepping stone toward
establishing probable cause for a new prosecution, he said.

“If you went in front of a judge you could say, ‘Once upon a
time a judge determined there was probable cause, and much more
information is available today,’” Rychlak said.

Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives in
Mississippi when he entered the store where Donham, then 21, was
working on Aug. 24, 1955. A Till relative who was there, Wheeler
Parker, told AP that Till whistled at the woman. Donham
testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made a lewd
comment.

Two nights later, Donham’s then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his
half-brother, J.W. Milam, showed up armed at the rural Leflore
County home of Till’s great-uncle, Mose Wright, looking for the
youth. Till’s brutalized body, weighted down by a fan, was
pulled from a river days later in another county. His mother’s
decision to open the casket so mourners in Chicago could see
what had happened helped galvanize the building civil rights
movement of the time.

Bryant and Milam were acquitted of murder but later admitted the
killing in a magazine interview. While both men were named in
the same warrant that accused Donham of kidnapping, authorities
did not pursue the case following their acquittal.

Wright testified during the murder trial that a person with a
voice “lighter” than a man’s identified Till from inside a
pickup truck and the abductors took him away. Other evidence in
FBI files indicates that earlier that same night, Donham told
her husband at least two other Black men were not the right
person.

https://apnews.com/article/arrests-mississippi-kidnapping-emmett- till-49708de557faf747ec3e9fa8c021e9cd

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In article <XnsAC9F93AA93B58nh@95.216.243.224>
<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:


Note to AP. Please review the work of your "Black..." proofer
and editor. Hire someone who can speak, read and write English
properly without bias.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) � A team searching a Mississippi courthouse
basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager
Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white
woman in his 1955 kidnapping, and relatives of the victim want
authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later.

A warrant for the arrest of Carolyn Bryant Donham � identified
as �Mrs. Roy Bryant� on the document � was discovered last week
by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box,
Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill told The
Associated Press on Wednesday.

Documents are kept inside boxes by decade, he said, but there
was nothing else to indicate where the warrant, dated Aug. 29,
1955, might have been.

�They narrowed it down between the �50s and �60s and got lucky,�
said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine.

The search group included members of the Emmett Till Legacy
Foundation and two Till relatives: cousin Deborah Watts, head of
the foundation; and her daughter, Teri Watts. Relatives want
authorities to use the warrant to arrest Donham, who at the time
of the slaying was married to one of two white men tried and
acquitted just weeks after Till was abducted from a relative�s
home, killed and dumped into a river.

�Serve it and charge her,� Teri Watts told the AP in an
interview.

Keith Beauchamp, whose documentary film �The Untold Story of
Emmett Louis Till� preceded a renewed Justice Department probe
that ended without charges in 2007, was also part of the search.
He said there�s enough new evidence to prosecute Donham.

Donham set off the case in August 1955 by accusing the 14-year-
old Till of making improper advances at a family store in Money,
Mississippi. A cousin of Till who was there has said Till
whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of
Mississippi�s racist social codes of the era.

Evidence indicates a woman, possibly Donham, identified Till to
the men who later killed him. The arrest warrant against Donham
was publicized at the time, but the Leflore County sheriff told
reporters he did not want to �bother� the woman since she had
two young children to care for.

Now in her 80s and most recently living in North Carolina,
Donham has not commented publicly on calls for her prosecution.
But Teri Watts said the Till family believes the warrant
accusing Donham of kidnapping amounts to new evidence.

�This is what the state of Mississippi needs to go ahead,� she
said.

District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, whose office would
prosecute a case, declined comment on the warrant but cited a
December report about the Till case from the Justice Department,
which said no prosecution was possible.

Contacted by the AP on Wednesday, Leflore County Sheriff Ricky
Banks said: �This is the first time I�ve known about a warrant.�

Banks, who was 7 years old when Till was killed, said �nothing
was said about a warrant� when a former district attorney
investigated the case five or six years ago.

�I will see if I can get a copy of the warrant and get with the
DA and get their opinion on it,� Banks said. If the warrant can
still be served, Banks said, he would have to talk to law
enforcement officers in the state where Donham resides.

Arrest warrants can �go stale� due to the passage of time and
changing circumstances, and one from 1955 almost certainly
wouldn�t pass muster before a court, even if a sheriff agreed to
serve it, said Ronald J. Rychlak, a law professor at the
University of Mississippi.

But combined with any new evidence, the original arrest warrant
�absolutely� could be an important stepping stone toward
establishing probable cause for a new prosecution, he said.

�If you went in front of a judge you could say, �Once upon a
time a judge determined there was probable cause, and much more
information is available today,�� Rychlak said.

Till, who was from Chicago, was visiting relatives in
Mississippi when he entered the store where Donham, then 21, was
working on Aug. 24, 1955. A Till relative who was there, Wheeler
Parker, told AP that Till whistled at the woman. Donham
testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made a lewd
comment.

Two nights later, Donham�s then-husband, Roy Bryant, and his
half-brother, J.W. Milam, showed up armed at the rural Leflore
County home of Till�s great-uncle, Mose Wright, looking for the
youth. Till�s brutalized body, weighted down by a fan, was
pulled from a river days later in another county. His mother�s
decision to open the casket so mourners in Chicago could see
what had happened helped galvanize the building civil rights
movement of the time.

Bryant and Milam were acquitted of murder but later admitted the
killing in a magazine interview. While both men were named in
the same warrant that accused Donham of kidnapping, authorities
did not pursue the case following their acquittal.

Wright testified during the murder trial that a person with a
voice �lighter� than a man�s identified Till from inside a
pickup truck and the abductors took him away. Other evidence in
FBI files indicates that earlier that same night, Donham told
her husband at least two other Black men were not the right
person.

https://apnews.com/article/arrests-mississippi-kidnapping-emmett- till-49708de557faf747ec3e9fa8c021e9cd

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