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Demovictory9

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Mon Jul 12, 2021, 05:09 PM Jul 2021

Sharpton/Ben.Crump. take up.case of white teen killed.by.cop

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/us/hunter-brittain-sharpton-crump/index.html

Why Al Sharpton and Ben Crump are taking up the case of a White teen killed by police
By Emma Tucker and Christina Carrega, CNN

)The Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Crump are taking up their first case involving a White person who was killed after being shot during an encounter with a police officer.

The civil rights leader and the high-profile attorney, who Sharpton has dubbed "Black America's Attorney general," deemed the police shooting of 17-year-old Hunter Brittain "one of the most significant" cases in the fight to push Congress for landmark police reform legislation.

Attorneys Crump and Devon Jacob, along with Sharpton and representatives from the NAACP, were invited to attend Brittain's memorial on Tuesday at Beebe High School in Beebe, Arkansas.

Brittain was fatally shot June 23 by a Lonoke County sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop around 3 a.m. outside of a local auto repair shop along Arkansas Highway 89 south of Cabot, a Little Rock suburb, according to Arkansas State Police.
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Sharpton/Ben.Crump. take up.case of white teen killed.by.cop (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jul 2021 OP
Good for them wryter2000 Jul 2021 #1
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