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Want to leave the casket open. i was like, if that's the last time i got to see my brother, it's going to be the last time everybody else has to see my brother. so they can live with what i have to live with. just like emmett till's mother, i wanted to pretty much make that same remark. like, look what they did to my brother. you just left him in the middle of the road like a piece of trash, like he didn't matter. and my dad, he couldn't handle it. when we had the service, he didn't go near him because he couldn't bear seeing his son like that. >> i wanted everybody to see what they did to my ...

Have a casket open. the time when she says, leave us alone, and she's talking about her and her son in the coroner's office, and then she spends that time with her. she describes touching every part of him. and then she goes out and she brings the cameras in. she wants people to believe what they see with their own eyes. how much do you feel that message is needed today, keith? >> i think we are seeing it today. in particular the george floyd case. the young lady who had herself phone and decided to make this courageous decision to film what she saw. that was an extension of the work of mother...

Have the casket open. the time when she says, leave us alone, and she's talking about her and her son in the coroner's office. and then she spends that time with him, describes touching every part of him. and then she goes out and she brings the cameras in because she wants people to believe what they see with their own eyes. t how much do you feel that message is needed today, keith? >> well, i think we're seeing it today. you know, in particular the george floyd case, the young lady who had her cell phone and decided to make this courageous decision to film what she saw. that was an extensio...

Casket open. the time when she says, leave us alone, and she's talking about her and her son in the coroner's office, and she spends that time with her. she describes, you know, touching every part of him. and then she goes out and brings the cameras in because she wants people to believe what they see with their own eyes. how much do you feel that message is needed today, keith? >> well, i think we're seeing it today. you know, in particular, the george floyd case, the young lady who had her cell phone and decided to make this courageous decision to film what she saw, that was an extension of...

Back in march and just published by propublica. till's cousin reacting tonight. >> seeing them standing there and smiling at a place that we think is solemn ground, it's definitely disappointing. >> reporter: that photo reopening deep wounds. at 14 years old, emmitt till was abducted and lynched in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. his anguished mother leaving the casket open for the world to see. till's death helped galvanize the civil rights movement. tonight these students have been suspended by the kappa alpha fraternity but not expelled. the school says it got a complaint abo...