-Jasmine Dyer-

Cousins!

Mississippi’s attorney general reveals she has no plans to arrest the white woman whose false allegation resulted in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till after the discovery of an unserved arrest warrant! 

“There’s no new evidence to open the case back up,” Michelle Williams, chief of staff for Attorney General Lynn Fitch, told The Associated Press. 

Williams also added that the attorney general office has not contacted Leflore County— where the brutal lynching took place— District Attorney Dewayne Richardson, the local prosecutor who would be responsible for any legal action against Carolyn Bryant Donham. Once again, failing to bring justice to Emmett Till and his family. 

This announcement was made days after a copy of Donham’s sealed memoir was given to reporters that seemingly contradicted her previous claims. 

As we previously reported, an unissued arrest warrant was found in a Mississippi courthouse basement that has sparked outrage from Emmett’s relatives and supporters pushing for justice in his murder.

Following the recent discovery, After the discovery, dozens of Protesters gathered at a senior living facility in Raleigh, NC, to search for Donham in hopes that authorities would deport her to Mississippi for arrest but were unable to locate the 88-year-old woman.

As you may know, 14-year-old Chicago resident Emmett was visiting residents in Mississippi when Donham, then 21, accused him of whistling at her and attempting to touch her while she worked in her family’s grocery store. Donham then shared the false allegations with her husband.

Two days later, Till was kidnapped by Carolyn’s husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam, severely beaten, mutilated, and shot. The men then tied barbed wire to a large metal fan and to Till’s neck before throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River. 

Both men were acquitted of their horrific crimes by an all-white jury after an hour of deliberations in September 1955. After the trial, the men admitted to killing Emmett in a magazine interview but received no punishment. 

Cousins, what are your thoughts on Mississippi not pursuing the arrest of the woman connected to Emmett Till’s murder?