Thousands who are protesting in the streets of Los Angeles demanding justice for George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police are calling for their own district attorney to resign over the staggering amount of people killed by police here.
For almost three years, Melina Abdullah, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter-LA., has led dozens of demonstrators to the steps of the Hall of Justice to call for the resignation of L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey for failing to prosecute the officers involved in the killings.
In every case but one, Lacey, who is the first Black person to serve as L.A.'s district attorney, has found a shooting by police justified or decided not to bring charges because she concluded the officer could win an acquittal at trial.
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“Everybody is utterly shocked when they think about the number of people who have been killed by police or while in custody since Lacey took office," Abdullah said to ABC News.
She now faces a runoff against George Gascon, a former San Francisco district attorney and longtime Los Angeles police commander.