LOS ANGELES – Several Black activists are demanding that local officials withdraw their support of embattled District Attorney Jackie Lacey or face mass protests and political opposition during their own election campaigns this fall.
Najee Ali of Project Islamic Hope and Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, who held a joint press conference June 22, are demanding that Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and members of the Los Angeles City Council, rescind their support of Lacey, who has been vilified publicly for not prosecuting bad cops.
Lacey is the first African American and the first woman to become Los Angeles County district attorney.
The desertions of her high-profile supporters as of late come during the continued criticism by Black Lives Matter representatives who have organized a weekly pilgrimage for nearly three years to protest outside Lacey’s home and outside the her office in the county Hall of Justice downtown, demanding her resignation for failing to prosecute killings by rogue police officers.
“601 people have been killed by police since Jackie Lacey took office and our district attorney refuses to charge those officers.”
