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Emmett Till's cousin says she considers George Floyd's death a modern-day lynching

Till was just 14 years old in 1955 when he was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman inside her family’s grocery store. Today, federal anti-lynching laws still don’t exist.

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