Prominent South L.A. community activist Najee Ali denounced violence and offered prayers for injured sheriff's deputies
In the wake of Saturday night’s shooting of two L.A. County Sheriff’s Department deputies in Compton, several activists have come forward to denounce the violence and urge the department to engage in more dialogue with the community.around the Aug. 31 fatal shooting of Dijon Kizzee, and LaWanda Hawkins, the founder of Justice for Murdered Children, a group that represents families of homicide victims, stood Monday morning outside St.
Last Thursday, detectives from the Operation Safe Streets Bureau also killed a man who they said opened fire on them as they served a search warrant in Compton, the Sheriff’s Department said.Ali and Hawkins referenced videos that have surfaced showing people celebrating the shooting of the deputies. On Saturday night, some demonstrators showed up at St. Francis Medical Center, with one identifying himself as a member of an activist group called the Africa Town Coalition.
“What happened to those deputies should never have happened, and those who know anything should call in immediately,” she said. “That’s a really, really important thing to point out, because you absolutely will get people who will spin this into meaning that these protests are causing problems,” Dr. Sarah Vinson, a forensic psychiatrist and associate professor of psychiatry at Morehouse School of Medicine, told The Times.
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