*Emmett Till: woman whose accusation led to [his] lynching will not be
charged.*
I think this verdict was inevitable. If her story is true, it implies
she is not responsible for the murder of Emmet Till. If she is lying,
she might be co-responsible in some way, but there is no evidence about
what it may have been, let alone any proof.
The people who really should have been convicted of murder were the
people who killed him. They were acquitted by a racist jury.
If that were to happen today, the murderers would face federal civil
rights charges, as well as state charges. The conviction of Ahmaud
Arbery's killers suggests that the US has learned to be less racist in
its justice than it was in 1955. Maybe some day it will learn to be
even less racist.