Quote Originally Posted by Brett
He got off cause now he is white
that and the "old code" was still strongly in effect. back then in emmit tills' day, if a person of color was killed by someone white. regardless of the reason "they deserved it" and then the jury was stacked by similar thinking people so that the accused was let go, in time for dinner. it's like that now still. but crooked cops are the ones that are mostly innocent of murder.