A sign honoring Emmett Till was found riddled with more than 40 bullet holes. Kevin Wilson Jr., a filmmaker who is working on a short film on Till, made the discovery; the incident garnered attention when Wilson posted about it on Facebook.
“I’m at the exact site where Emmett Till’s body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River 61 years ago,” he wrote. “The site marker is filled with bullet holes. Clear evidence that we’ve still got a long way to go.”
Till was a 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. The Chicago native, who was visiting relatives at the time, was kidnapped, mutilated and shot. His body was found floating in a river several days after he went missing. The perpetrators, who eventually confessed their crimes, were acquitted by an all-white jury.
