FBI: No Federal Charges in Till Killing

[deadparrot]

JACKSON, Miss. - The FBI said Thursday that no federal charges will be filed in the grisly 1955 killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a case that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.

After a reopened investigation that included the exhumation of Till's body for an autopsy last June, FBI agent John G. Raucci said in a statement that the five-year statute of limitations on federal civil rights violations had expired.

The FBI gave its long-awaited report to District Attorney Joyce L. Chiles, who will decide on any state charges. Chiles did not immediately return a call.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said that he can only hope for state charges to be brought.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060317/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/till_investigation

[Canuckistanian]

1. What about a civil suit?

I thought the standards were much lower in order to get a settlement.

[brer cat]

2. Why did they reopen the case and exhume the body last June

if the statute prevented them from doing anything? Doesn't make any sense to me. They certainly knew last June that more than five years had passed.

[NVMojo]

3. This is outrageous and irresponsible!