US: Lynching finally made federal hate crime
US President Joe Biden has signed into law the first federal legislation to make lynching a hate crime. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act is named after the black teenager whose brutal murder in Mississippi in 1955 helped spark the civil rights movement. Perpetrators of a lynching - death or injury resulting from a hate crime - will face up to 30 years in jail.
Gloria J Browne-Marshall is a civil rights attorney and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. She explains to Newsday why the change has finally come about: 鈥淭he video cameras have really made it visceral because before it was a person of colour鈥檚 word against a white person鈥heir word was almost like the word of God.鈥�
(Picture: A candlelight vigil held in honour of Emmett Till in 2015 in the US. Credit: Charles A. Smith/JSU University Communications/Jackson State University via Getty Images)
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