Civil Rights
Aug. 27, 2002
Race, Politics and Police Brutality
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - A few days after the slaying of Margaret Laverne Mitchell, a middle-aged, African-American, emotionally disturbed, homeless woman by a Los Angeles Police Department officer in an altercation over a shopping cart in May 1999, a visibly irritated LAPD Chief Bernard Parks publicly declared that the officer did not act inappropriately. This appeared to exonerate the officer even before the department had barely begun its official investigation into the shooting.
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
A few days after the slaying of Margaret Laverne Mitchell, a middle-aged, African-American, emotionally disturbed, homeless woman by a Los Angeles Police Department officer in an altercation over a shopping c...
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