Emmett Till: Guilty Or Unfair?

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I am writing complaining about the case of Emmett Till. I have recently learned about the Emmett Till case and thought the way you handled was unfair, he was an innocent 14-year-old African-American boy. He got kidnapped, had been brutally murdered and thrown his body into the Tallahatchie River, because he apparently he whistled at a white woman and it’s insane that both Bryant and Milam were not punished, despite clear evidence that two white men committed the crime. The only proof they obtained not to obtain these two men guilty it was that the state could not prove the body was Emmett Till. Which is completely absurd since Mamie Bradley and Moses Wright, both identified the body as Emmett Till. The fact that the County's sheriff advised
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