Three fraternity brothers at the University of Mississippi have been referred to investigators at the Justice Department for posing with guns in front of a bullet-riddled sign erected in memory of Emmett Till
Photo: Wesley Hitt/Getty Images . The 14-year-old Till was tortured and murdered in 1955 by a group of white men, who were acquitted by an all-white male jury. The sign, which has been repeatedly vandalized, stands near the site at the Tallahatchie River where Till’s body was found.
The photo was uploaded on March 1 and eventually received at least 274 likes. Five days later, according to the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, with ProPublica, someone who saw it filed a complaint. A spokesman for Ole Miss said an official had referred the photo to the police department, then to the FBI, which told the school it would do nothing further because the image “did not pose a specific threat.
Kappa Alpha Order, or KA, a fraternity that considers Confederate general Robert E. Lee as its “spiritual founder,” has a long history of racist incidents involving its brothers. It faced backlash in 2002 when students appeared in blackface at a Halloween party the frat had sponsored at the University of Virginia.
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