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Addressing the crowd outside Decatur City Hall, national civil rights attorney Lee Merritt also demanded the arrests and firings of the two other officers who went to Perkins’ house early Friday morning. Officials have not released the officers’ names.after the vigil. “There’s never an open and shut case involving a Black man in the American judicial system because of the inerrant bias, but this is a case that can be won and should be vigorously prosecuted.
But Merritt said the tow truck driver had the wrong address and police ambushed Perkins in the dark outside his home.“I was not only his brother, I was his friend and his protector,” he said. “You have no idea how it feels to be born a protector and that job was taken away from you unjustly and unwarranted.”
“I also challenge you as the leader, we want accountability,” he said. “We want responsibility. We want change. So citizens of Decatur, y’all got work to do. We need new leadership. We need to push forward. Justice for Steve.”
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