Federal lawsuit seeks to compel Mississippi sheriff to serve arrest warrant in 1955 lynching of Emmett Till – By Jason Kandel (Law & Crime) / Feb 14, 2023
A relative of Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was kidnapped and lynched after being accused of offending a white woman in 1955, has filed a lawsuit to compel a sheriff in Mississippi to serve an arrest warrant on the woman who made the false accusation that led to the killing.
Priscilla Sterling, the cousin of Till, filed the lawsuit in a federal court in Mississippi on Feb. 7 seeking to compel Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks to serve an arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant, now Carolyn Bryant Donham.
“The pain and suffering of the Till family never go away, particularly because no one has ever been held accountable for the brutal murder of my cousin Emmett Till,” Sterling said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “We shall not rest until Carolyn Bryant is brought to complete justice in Mississippi.”
