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We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial.
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We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.
Three students were suspended from their fraternity house, Kappa Alpha, after we shared an Instagram photo one of the men posted that was taken in front of a sign commemorating the murder of the 14-year-old black youth in 1955.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting July 25, 1:35 p.m. EDT
OXFORD, Miss. Three University of Mississippi students have been suspended from their fraternity house and face possible investigation by the Department of Justice after posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign honoring slain civil rights icon Emmett Till.
One of the students posted a photo to his private Instagram account in March showing the trio in front of a roadside plaque commemorating the site where Tills body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River. The 14-year-old black youth was tortured and murdered in August 1955. An all-white, all-male jury acquitted two white men accused of the slaying.
The photo, which was obtained by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica, shows an Ole Miss student named Ben LeClere holding a shotgun while standing in front of the bullet-pocked sign. His Kappa Alpha fraternity brother, John Lowe, squats below the sign. A third fraternity member stands on the other side with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. The photo appears to have been taken at night, the scene illuminated by lights from a vehicle.
LeClere posted the picture on Lowes birthday on March 1 with the message one of Memphiss finest and the worst influence Ive ever met.
Neither LeClere nor Lowe responded to repeated attempts to contact them.
It is not clear whether the fraternity students shot the sign or are simply posing before it. The sign is part of a memorial effort by the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, a Mississippi civil rights group, and has been repeatedly vandalized, most recently in August 2018. Tills death helped propel the modern civil rights movement in America.
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We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.
Three students were suspended from their fraternity house, Kappa Alpha, after we shared an Instagram photo one of the men posted that was taken in front of a sign commemorating the murder of the 14-year-old black youth in 1955.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting July 25, 1:35 p.m. EDT
OXFORD, Miss. Three University of Mississippi students have been suspended from their fraternity house and face possible investigation by the Department of Justice after posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign honoring slain civil rights icon Emmett Till.
One of the students posted a photo to his private Instagram account in March showing the trio in front of a roadside plaque commemorating the site where Tills body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River. The 14-year-old black youth was tortured and murdered in August 1955. An all-white, all-male jury acquitted two white men accused of the slaying.
The photo, which was obtained by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica, shows an Ole Miss student named Ben LeClere holding a shotgun while standing in front of the bullet-pocked sign. His Kappa Alpha fraternity brother, John Lowe, squats below the sign. A third fraternity member stands on the other side with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. The photo appears to have been taken at night, the scene illuminated by lights from a vehicle.
LeClere posted the picture on Lowes birthday on March 1 with the message one of Memphiss finest and the worst influence Ive ever met.
Neither LeClere nor Lowe responded to repeated attempts to contact them.
It is not clear whether the fraternity students shot the sign or are simply posing before it. The sign is part of a memorial effort by the Emmett Till Memorial Commission, a Mississippi civil rights group, and has been repeatedly vandalized, most recently in August 2018. Tills death helped propel the modern civil rights movement in America.
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We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. (Original Post)
Fla Dem
Jul 2019
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Afromania
(2,771 posts)1. Surprise, surprise, surprise
So tired of the bullshit...
Aristus
(66,450 posts)2. I so wish these guys could never get a decent job in life because of this.
But they will. They can get well-paying jobs at FOX News or at some right-wing hate-tank.
Getting dropped by a fraternity. Yeah, that's a life-ending tragedy.
To hell with making America great again. I want our country to be kind again...
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)3. "Economic anxieties" strike again...
SunSeeker
(51,665 posts)4. Racist frat idiots.
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)5. In light of recent events, this should be considered a terror cell NT
Fla Dem
(23,739 posts)6. Unfortunately according to this later article, the FBI did not find it criminal or a threat.
POLITICS 08/01/2019 02:26 pm ET
Outrage At Ole Miss Over White Students Posing With Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Sign
It makes it harder to say its not bad, one recent black graduate said. To say Im safe here, Mom, dont worry.
By Christopher Mathias
<<<<SNIP
The university chose to defer its investigation until the FBI made its own determination about the photo. But interim Chancellor Larry Sparks told ProPublica this week that a lapse in communication led to the school being unaware that the FBI had concluded its investigation ― which found that the photo didnt represent a crime or a specific threat.
Sparks said Ole Miss is now investigating the photo, although school spokesman Rod Guajardo said last week that while the image is offensive, it does not constitute a violation of the universitys code of conduct. The incident, Guajardo noted to ProPublica, happened off-campus.
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Outrage At Ole Miss Over White Students Posing With Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Sign
It makes it harder to say its not bad, one recent black graduate said. To say Im safe here, Mom, dont worry.
By Christopher Mathias
<<<<SNIP
The university chose to defer its investigation until the FBI made its own determination about the photo. But interim Chancellor Larry Sparks told ProPublica this week that a lapse in communication led to the school being unaware that the FBI had concluded its investigation ― which found that the photo didnt represent a crime or a specific threat.
Sparks said Ole Miss is now investigating the photo, although school spokesman Rod Guajardo said last week that while the image is offensive, it does not constitute a violation of the universitys code of conduct. The incident, Guajardo noted to ProPublica, happened off-campus.
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