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Hundreds Of Lawyers Stage ‘Die-In’ To Protest Police Brutality
Posted: Dec 16, 2014 12:45 PM PST
Updated: Dec 16, 2014 12:47 PM PST
Written by: Christine O'Donnell, Reporter
Posted by: Jeffrey Thomas DeSocio, Digital News Editor / Producer
Los Angeles, CA - (FOX 11) It was a sight to see. In the middle of a rain storm, hundreds of lawyers dressed in suits and ties, laid on the ground at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in protest of police brutality Tuesday.
"For four and a half minutes today we laid down in the rain on the steps of justice because there hasn't been justice for the families," lawyer Erin Darling said.
"These are lawyers protesting the non-indictments in Ferguson, Staton Island and in general lawyers concerned about justice and trying to uphold the constitution," Darling said.
"We want justice," they chanted. Some overcome with passion.
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Lawyers lie down in the rain to protest killings by police
BY JOSEPH SERNA
December 16, 2014, 12:41 p.m.
Amid calls for justice and chants of “black lives matter,” more than 100 lawyers, law students and others staged a “die-in” outside a downtown Los Angeles courthouse Tuesday, arguing that the legal system in which they operate is broken.
The group blocked a lane of traffic and clogged the walkway leading to the Hill Street entrance of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, making it virtually impossible for passing motorists and court visitors to ignore their message.
“The issue of police brutality is not about any single officer or victim, nor is it about good people versus bad people,” Priscilla Ocen, a law professor, declared over a bullhorn. “The number of unjustified homicides is a result of an entire system left too long without the leigitimate checks necessary to ensure accountability and justice.”
Tuesday’s “die-in” marked the second day in a row that a group of white-collar professionals has demonstrated in support of calls for increased police accountability following the deaths of unarmed black men.
“As legal actors, we are sworn to uphold and enforce the law, so we have a responsibility to condemn the racist criminal justice system of which we are a part,” Ocen said. “Today we must challenge this structure and take a stand against it.”
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The group said it scheduled the “die-in” for about 15 1/2 minutes – to mark the 11 times Eric Garner said “I can’t breathe” to New York police and the 4 1/2 hours Michael Brown’s body lay on a road in Ferguson, Mo., after he was fatally shot.
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