“It was the Emmett Till of our time.”
The words Detroit Pistons forward Jerami Grant told Yahoo Sports are chilling, thought-provoking and pausing.
Till’s death in 1955 became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago, was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. It was a high crime in the Jim Crow South, and Till was brutally killed by two white men, who dumped his body in a nearby river.
Grant was still in college, not a full-grown NBA player when a Florida teenager was killed 10 years ago.