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Last year President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law — legislation that had William Barber III reminded us that no law, “verdict or election can bring about the racial reckoning
By Liz Courquet-Lesaulnier NNPA Newswire
yet again.” In his post, Beauchamp also acknowledged, “The question that everyone should be asking is how and who allowed this predator to get away? Like Till’s family, Beauchamp has long pursued truth and justice for the murdered teen. Beauchamp spent 10 years, making the 2005 documentary, “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.”
The evidence he uncovered was instrumental to the U.S. government reopening its investigation of the case in 2004 — before the film was released. However, no charges ended up being brought, and the investigation closed in 2007.
The FBI reopened the case after the Jan- uary 2017 publication of the book “The Blood of Emmett Till,” by historian and author Timothy B. Tyson. Tyson spent an unprecedented amount of time with Bryant, and he detailed in the book that she admitted to him that she had lied. Tyson wrote that Bryant said: “Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.” However, he was unable to produce an audio recording of that specific conversation — he only had a handwritten note of Bryant’s remarks. The Till case was closed again in 2021. An Unserved Arrest Warrant Bryant’s death came just two weeks after the April 13 announcement that Ricky
Banks, the sheriff in Leflore County, Mississippi, had declined to serve a recently discovered 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant.
Why wasn’t the warrant served in 1955? The then-sheriff decided he didn’t want to “bother” Bryant because she was a mother. This unserved warrant was found in June 2022 at the Leflore County Courthouse by five members of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation. Despite the discovery of the warrant, in August 2022, a Leflore County grand jury refused to indict Bryant. “It is evident that the outstanding warrant was not ever intended to be served in 1955
