The norm prohibiting the lynching, through a hundred years of disputes has become a law in the United States after signing by President Joe Biden, writes RIA Novosti.
“Now this is the law,” Biden said, signing the document.
The law got the name of Emmet Till, a 14-year-old African American, who in 1955 a white woman accused of stickies, and her close brutally killed him and were justified by jury. Attempts to adopt at the federal level the law against the linchers were undertaken repeatedly during the century. Now the lynching will be pursued within the framework of the criminal law as a hate crime.
“Almost 100 years ago, the representative of the state of North Carolina George White is the only black in the congress at the time – for the first time presented the law against the lynching. Hundreds of such documents did not make their way as a law,” said Biden at the signing ceremony.