On July 19th, Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said the "swift
return of indictments was warranted" in the case against the
two police officers recently accused of using excessive force
against a handcuffed African American youth in Inglewood, CA.
Mfume said: "It is my hope that these indictments lead to a
fair and speedy trial that results in a verdict that will quickly
remove these officers from the police force. The few police
who use the color of law and the code of silence to destroy
the basic American tenet of 'justice for all' taint the decent
police who serve and protect our communities everyday."
Last week during its 93rd national convention, the NAACP
passed an emergency resolution condemning the recent act
of police brutality in Inglewood and the NAACP Youth, College
and Young Adult division held a protest rally calling for a
nationwide halt to police brutality.
The indictments were handed down after an amateur
videotape showed the July 6 police beating Donovan Jackson
while his hands were handcuffed behind his back. Los Angeles
County sheriff's deputies stopped the 16-year-old Jackson, a
special education student, and his father because the car
they were in had expired tags. Inglewood police officers
Jeremy Morse and Bijan Darvish arrived to assist. Morse is
charged with felony assault while Darvish is charged with
filing a false police report.
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