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Scarlett O'Toole

Kanye West compares himself to civil rights icon Emmett Till in 'lynching' rant

Kanye West has suggested he is the victim of 'modern lynching' as he shared a graphic picture of Emmett Till's dead body following the closure of his Donda Academy.

Emmett was just 14-years-old when he was kidnapped, tortured and murdered before being thrown in a river for allegedly flirting with a white woman in 1955.

His death sparked the US civil rights movement.

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