Benjamin Crump
Benjamin Crump
Benjamin Lloyd Crumpis an American attorney at the Tallahassee, Florida based law firm Parks & Crump, LLC known for his association with the 2012/2013 George Zimmerman case. He is representing the family of Michael Brown, a 17-year-old African-American man shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri...
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The medical examiner said he died from internal bleeding. One thing we do know is that damage to his internal organs wasn't caused from this alleged sickle-cell trait.
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Your presence today spoke volumes. Thank you all for the support.
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You can only ask yourself what scarring and bruising was on Martin Anderson that we don't know about.
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Obviously they lied to medical personnel that could have saved Martin's life.
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As you can imagine, the parents feel terrible. The mama thought she was doing the right thing.
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It's a difficult decision for the family: to have to dig your child up (out of) the ground after you've buried him, to disturb him from resting in peace.
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We argued to the judge that miracles like this are wonderful, but they do come with a price.
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The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.
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There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.
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An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.
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When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers.