The Daily Populous

President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday.

Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, according to the official.

In Mississippi, the monument will include Graball Landing, believed to be where Till’s mutilated body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River. »

These reservists are joining more than 1,000 Air Force reservists who made the same announcement in a letter on Friday.

"We represent some 10,000 reservists who are telling the government, the defense minister and the prime minister the responsibility is on you!

"I've served om the Air Force for 35 years," said a former fighter pilot. »

A Florida man has pleaded guilty to participating in the 6 January 2021 riot at the US Capitol – on the same day the state’s governor called the insurrection simply a “protest” that “ended up devolving.”.

He faces up to five years in prison at a Sept. 28 sentencing hearing, AP reported.

Florida Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, however, downplayed the 6 January events during a podcast interview on Friday with comedian Russell Brand. »

Sheriff Charlie Dougherty said Wednesday that at the request of the Oklahoma Council on Judicial Complaints, he provided the state agency with video from the trial.

He said he found the judge “spent hours of the trial” texting and scrolling on her cell phone.

Defense attorney Velia Lopez said the judge did a great job, and she never saw the judge on the phone. »