Ole Miss Students Pose with Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial

[SummerMadness]

Ole Miss Students Posed with Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.

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 Till’s 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.

 

[Cimorene]

It's so gross they did that.

 

[Sabertooth]

What were they thinking...!?

 

[Goonie]

What were they thinking...!?

Donald Trumps Pres lets antagonise everyone.

 

[Sabertooth]

Donald Trumps Pres lets antagonise everyone.

You are going to lay this at DJT's feet!? (That response was phoned in.)

 

[Goonie]

You are going to lay this at DJT's feet!? (You must be bored.)

Well yes, but the right wing ‘triumphant’ atmosphere at the moment, does give a background.

 

[SummerMadness]

You are going to lay this at DJT's feet!? (That response was phoned in.)

I think what you lay at his feet is that he encourages this type of behavior. Often when the victim is a racial minority or immigrant, he remains silent. He wants to be the president of one group of people, he really does not care about those that do not look like his base. As such, his base feels energized; they always wanted to shoot that sign, and now they feel completely open and okay with posing in front of a sign memorializing the murder of a child.

 

[Sabertooth]

I think what you lay at his feet is that he encourages this type of behavior.

It is hard to be sympathetic about your posts when you would use an unrelated story to make an unwarranted slam against the POTUS.

You just have an axe to grind and your insinuations are just as distasteful as the photo in question in the OP.

 

[SummerMadness]

It is hard to be sympathetic about your posts when you would use an unrelated story to make an unwarranted slam against the POTUS.

You just have an axe to grind and your insinuations are just as distasteful as the photo in question in the OP.

I didn't bring up the president, I simply explained why people feel that way.