On Monday the Clay County Prosecutor's Office filed two felony charges against 85-year-old Andrew Lester in connection with the shooting of Ralph Yarl.Civil rights attorney Ben Crum...
On Monday the Clay County Prosecutor's Office filed two felony charges against 85-year-old Andrew Lester in connection with the shooting of Ralph Yarl.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump spoke live with Scripps News about the shooting as news of the charges broke. "To shoot a teenager just for ringing your doorbell cannot be the message that we send to society," he said. "We have to remain vigilant until there's a conviction. Far too often we've seen charges where they shoot unarmed black teenagers and scream 'stand your ground,' and then the jury acquits them. So we are not going to start being relieved until we get a conviction."There is a message to be taken from the shooting, Crump said.
"You're ringing the doorbell. You're not banging on the door, you're not doing anything that is malicious or aggressive." Crump said."We have to talk to these perpetrators, and tell them that they need to quit profiling our children.""Had his family and me and attorney [Lee] Merritt and our legal teams not started arguing in the court of public opinion, they might have swept this completely under the rug."Trending stories at Scrippsnews.
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