3 students, 2 of them brandishing weapons, posed in front of the purple sign that marks the place where Emmett Till's body was recovered from the Tallahatchie River in August 1955.
Ben LeClere was the Ole Miss student holding a shotgun while John Lowe squatted below the sign and a third unidentified frat member held up an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting and ProPublica reported.
"The making of the photo was unrelated to any event or activity of our chapter. The chapter's leadership learned of the photo late last night. The photo is inappropriate, insensitive, and unacceptable. It does not represent our chapter. We have and will continue to be in communication with our national organization and the University."
"While the image is offensive, it did not present a violation of university code of conduct. It occurred off campus and was not part of a university-affiliated event," according to a statement by Guajardo Till, a 14-year-old African American from Chicago, was visiting family in Mississippi when a gang of white men abducted, tortured and murdered him.
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