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What Should Happen to Emmett Till’s Accuser, Carolyn Donham? Black Twitter Has Its Opinion

What Should Happen to Emmett Till’s Accuser, Carolyn Donham? Black Twitter Has Its Opinion
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By Paula Rogo · Updated October 23, 2020

Now that the world knows that the FBI is once again investigating the murder of Emmett Till, many have shared their personal opinions on how justice should be served.

After receiving a report in late March from the U.S. Justice Department with “new information,” Congress has decided to further investigate the circumstances around his killing.

Last year, more than 60 years after the death of Till, the woman who testified during his trial admitted to perjury. The Root reported that a book titled The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy Tyson, a Duke University scholar, revealed that Carolyn Bryant Donham, now 72-years-old, admitted that she made false claims about Till during her testimony.

The two men responsible for killing Till, J.W. Milam and his half-brother Roy Bryant, were arrested after the murder. However, they were found not guilty after deliberation from an all-White, all-male jury.

Vanity Fair reports that during the trial, Donham testified that Till “grabbed her and verbally threatened her” and that she was “just scared to death.”

Although the Justice Department has not specified why they have re-opened the case, many are sure it has something to do with Donham and they want justice served. Most want her to go to prison.

Carolyn Donham is an accomplice to a confessed murder and should be in prison. That’s been clear for decades now. But she’s lived her life as a free woman in the world. While #EmmettTill hasn’t lived at all. https://t.co/MWBhWxrUUU

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 12, 2018

This is really simple, the woman lied. She admitted to being a liar. Posthumously vindicating Emmett Till does nothing. Carolyn Bryant Donham needs to go to jail and the Till family deserves money for pain and suffering. https://t.co/I1tSQ4Ekv7

— Triceps from Giza (@AD_Renaissance) July 12, 2018

This is going to sound callous but IDGAF - Carolyn Donham (Bryant) should be charged, put on trial and jailed until she dies for speaking the lie that caused Emmett Till's horrible murder. 84 years old or not. She needs to pay for her crime. She knew what would happen to that boy

— Cherry Wanders🍒 (@CherryWanders) July 12, 2018

I don't care how old Carolyn (Bryant) Donham is.

Her admitted lies about Emmett Till, even under oath, which is a crime itself, had EVERYTHING to do with his brutal murder.

She should be held responsible for this, just as old Nazis are tracked down, tried, and jailed. pic.twitter.com/TwmgeUgRh4

— Shaun King (@shaunking) July 12, 2018

a good start to justice being served would be throwing carolyn bryant donham’s 80-something-year-old trifling, lying, demon-ass in prison...yeah, that would definitely work for me. https://t.co/dVUAR6ZiyT

— candy newell (@candynewell1) July 12, 2018

 

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