Backers seek expansion of civil rights death law Another ridiculous $135 million dollars 2 pacify victims murdered during civil rights only catch murder has 2 b b4 1969. Only 1 case prosecuted. Why does Alabama politicians think we r stupid. If civil rights death law has only benefited 1 person change it. Count bullets in this building. So has the money been transferred 2 general fund? What happened 2 interest made off $135 million. We must hold slick politicians accountable. Vote them out of office or sign a petition 2 recall them from office. We r sick n tired of politicians mess. How many have 2 die b4 minorities r taken seriously? BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — There has only been one prosecution under the Emmett Till Act, even though the law was passed with the promise of $135 million for police work and an army of federal agents to investigate unsolved killings from the civil rights era. Some deaths aren’t even under review because of a quirk in the law. Still, proponents are laying the groundwork to extend and expand the act in hopes it’s not too late for some families to get justice. In nearly six years since the signing of the law, named for a black Chicago teenager killed after flirting with a white woman in Mississippi in 1955, only one person has been prosecuted: A former Alabama trooper who pleaded guilty in 2010 to killing a black protester in 1965. The government has closed the books on all but 20 of the 126 deaths it investigated under the law, finding many were too old to prosecute because suspects and witnesses had died and memories had faded. And Congress hasn’t appropriated millions of dollars in grant money that was meant to help states fund their own investigations. Perhaps most frustrating, an unknown number of slayings haven’t even gotten a look because the law doesn’t cover any killings after 1969. That saddens people like Gloria Green-McCray, whose brother James Earl Green was shot to death on May 14, 1970 by police during a student demonstration at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:25:22 +0000
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