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I would love to see justice done for Emmett Till but most if not all the people involved in the case are dead so not sure what authorities can do now.
 
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Department of Justice updated Congress on the progress of cold civil rights cases. The report was a requirement of the Emmett Till Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act, which mandates that DOJ officials must update legislators once a year on the progress of unsolved, civil rights-era cold cases.

The FBI reopened the case and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions even met with Till’s relatives in 2017. But, despite knowing who killed Till, that he was killed as a result of a lie and knowing who told the lie, agents can’t seem to make any progress.

“We want them to go ahead and do something,” said the 80-year-old Rev. Wheeler Parker, Till’s uncle, who was with Till the night he was murdered “What is the holdup?”
https://www.theroot.com/the-department-of-justice-is-still-investigating-emmett-1838495449
 
The Civil Rights Division, in conjunction with United States Attorneys' Offices (USAOs) and the FBI, has focused significant time and resources to assess the prosecutability of more than 100 pending cold case matters. This effort is coordinated and led by an accomplished "cold case" prosecutor in the Civil Rights Division. Department officials have conducted and continue to conduct extensive outreach to identify evidence and witnesses to enhance the Department's efforts to investigate and resolve these unsolved cold cases. The legal and factual challenges in these decades-old matters are enormous, and we realize that few, if any, of these matters will be prosecutable.

Nonetheless, we have offered rewards for information to help solve these crimes; sought assistance from community groups and others; asked community members for evidence in town hall meetings and other programs; engaged the academic community; reached out to the media; and collaborated with state and local law enforcement organizations. We have also begun a process of trying to provide answers to the family members of victims, even where we cannot bring justice, by providing them with detailed notification letters that set forth our investigative efforts and our findings.

The Attorney General’s Eighth Annual Report to Congress Pursuant to the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 and Second Annual Report to Congress Pursuant to the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016 - June 2019

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Federal Officials Close Cold Case Re-Investigation of Murder of Emmett Till

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Mississippi announced today that it has closed its investigation into a witness’s alleged recantation of her account of the events leading up to the murder of Emmett Till. The investigation was conducted in conjunction with the Mississippi District Attorney’s Office, Fourth District. Till’s murder is one of the most infamous acts of racial violence in our country’s history.

Today, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, Acting U.S. Attorney Clay Joyner, District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson and career attorneys and employees from the Civil Rights Division and the FBI met with members of Till’s family, including a family member who had been a witness to the events preceding Till’s abduction and murder. The purpose of the meeting was to explain the reasons for closing the investigation and to give the family an opportunity to ask questions about the department’s investigation and conclusions.
 
This question is at the heart of Un(re)solved, FRONTLINE and partners’ award-winning, multiplatform experience examining a federal effort to grapple with America’s legacy of racist killings through the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.
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'Un(re)solved,' One Year Later

One year after the debut of this major initiative, explore the award-winning, multiplatform experience examining a federal effort to grapple with America’s legacy of racist killings through the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.
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