Obama signs Emmett Till Act to reopen unsolved civil rights cases

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Obama signs ‘Emmett Till Act’ to reopen unsolved civil rights cases

by thegrio | December 26, 2016 at 7:44 AM Filed in: News, Politics

With just weeks left in office, President Barack Obama signed the “Emmett Till Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization Act of 2016,” expanding the responsibilities of the Department of Justice and the FBI to investigate and prosecute criminal civil rights violations that occurred before 1980 and resulted in a death.

The bill is an expansion of a previous bill of the same name that was passed by the House of Representatives in 2007.

According to a White House summary, the bill calls on the DOJ and FBI to support the “full accounting of all victims whose deaths or disappearances were the result of racially motivated crimes” and “hold accountable under federal and state law individuals who were perpetrators of, or accomplices in, unsolved civil rights murders and disappearances.”

The bill also requires the federal agencies to meet regularly with civil rights organizations, institutions of higher education, and DOJ-designated entities to coordinate information sharing and discuss the status of DOJ’s Emmett Till Act work.

The agencies must also keep families regularly informed about the status of the investigations...


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[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

Lots of unsolved murders to investigate

[Lucky Luciano]

2. The current congress supported this bill?! nt

[think]

3. Surprised me as well. /nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. No, the one 6 elections ago did.

When Nancy Pelosi was Speaker.

[mopinko]

6. it says it is a reauthorization.

so it appears it was passed by this congress.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Yay! Now let's see what Mr Sessions does with it...

I'm not enthusiastic about his support of this.

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R