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Till relatives seek accuser’s prosecution in 1955 kidnapping

FILE-In this Friday, March 11, 2022 file photo, Deborah Watts, second from right, a cousin of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and lynched after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in her family store in rural Mississippi, hands Mississippi Attorney General Office representative Wayne Lynch, a poster and accompanying thumb drive that allegedly has almost 300,000 signatures on a petition seeking a renewed probe of the 1955 lynching, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) FILE-In this file combo photo, John W. Milam, 35, left, his half-brother Roy Bryant, 24 , centre, who go on trial in Sumner, Miss., Sept. 18, 1955, and are charged with the murder of 14-year-old African American Emmett L.Till from Chicago, Bryant's wife Carolyn, is seen right. Stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, relatives and activists are advocating another possible path toward accountability in Mississippi: They want authorities to launch a kidnapping prosecution against the woman who set off the lynching by accusing the Chicago teen of improper advances in 1955. (AP Photo, File) In this Sept. 22. 1955 photo, Carolyn Bryant rests her head on her husband Roy Bryant's shoulder after she testified in Emmett Till murder court case in Sumner, Miss. Stymied in their calls for a renewed investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, relatives and activists are advocating another possible path toward accountability in Mississippi: They want authorities to launch a kidnapping prosecution against the woman who set off the lynching by accusing the Chicago teen of improper advances in 1955. (AP Photo, File)