Al Sharpton demanded a full accounting of how a Georgia woman fell from a moving patrol car after her arrest, saying at her funeral Thursday that he would seek a Justice Department review of her case.
The woman died at an Atlanta hospital on July 21. According to a family attorney, authorities were called to her home in Sparta, Georgia, as she was experiencing a mental health crisis. Sparta is close to Atlanta.
The issue was not what she was thinking, but what police were thinking.
It's possible she had an episode. He asked at the funeral service if they had secured who they arrested in the back of the car.
According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the rear passenger-side door of the patrol car was not closed when it was taken to the sheriff's office. She was cuffed in front of her because she wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
A brain injury caused by falling out of the patrol car put her in a coma until she died, according to the family's lawyer.
The families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have been represented by the same person. At the funeral service, the mother stood next to the pulpit.
The world will know that she matters.
Her father said that authorities said she kicked the door and jumped out. He said the family wants to tell the twins the truth about their mother's death. The family was going to march to the capitol.
He said that they called the police after the incident. It was for help, not death.
Sharpton used his address to urge Black people to continue the fight for racial justice, lambasting members of the community who don't vote and who engage in "self-aggrandizement" on social media.
Some members of the community have not kept up the fight of the civil rights era, which is why there are cases like the fatal shooting of Taylor and the murder of George Floyd.
He said that they must be worthy of the ancestors who paid the price for them.
Law enforcement must be held to a higher standard. He said that officers were supposed to take her to the hospital.
He said you shouldn't have signed up for the job if you couldn't do it.
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