Sheriff says arrest warrant ‘no use if served’ in Emmett Till lynching case by LeahMahon_
Till's cousin filed a federal lawsuit to incite a local sheriff to finally serve an arrest warrantCALLS FOR an arrest warrant against the white woman whose accusations led to the brutal lynching ofThe Black teenager was violently murdered in 1955 afterclaimed that he had wolf-whistled at her, made sexual advances and grabbed at a grocery store.
An arrest warrant for Ms Donham, who was just 22-years-old when she made the allegations, was never served after the lynching. Till’s cousin, Patricia Sterling, filed a federal lawsuit against Sheriff Banks to incite him to serve the arrest warrant.
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