Leflore County Sheriff Ricky Banks filed to dismiss a lawsuit from relatives of Emmett Till, arguing a warrant to arrest Carolyn Bryant Dunham is moot.
a decades-old warrant for Donham’s arrest that, alongside Bryant and Milam, charged her with kidnapping Till. Bryant and Milam’s names were checked off on the warrant. Donham’s wasn’t.
Calls for Donham’s arrest immediately followed. In February, Sterling filed a federal lawsuit against Banks to compel the Leflore County Sheriff’s Office to serve the warrant. Sterling’s lawsuit argued that Donham deserved blame for falsely claiming that Till had assaulted her, which prompted Bryant and Milam to kidnap and kill Till. It also alleged that the Leflore County sheriff’s decision not to arrest Donham in 1955 was driven by racial discrimination and raised questions about the failure to arrest her. An officer wrote that Donham’s warrant was not executed because she was not found in the county, according to Sterling’s complaint and records filed in court.
“The Arrest Warrant is moot and Banks cannot legally serve it on Donham,” Banks’s court filing states. The motion also argued that Sterling did not allege any misconduct by Banks, only his predecessor as sheriff, and that she lacked standing to bring the lawsuit because she herself had not suffered injury.“Carolyn Bryant Donham’s actions, and the unserved warrant proves her culpability,” the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation
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