Lawyer shifts legal fight from George Floyd to Pamela Turner

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The conviction Tuesday of former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin on murder and manslaughter charges for pinning George Floyd's neck with his knee was already drawing renewed attention to the legal fight in the death of another Black American, Pamela Turner.

Floyd family attorney Ben Crump said after the jury announced it had found Chauvin guilty on all counts that he would be putting on a march for justice for Black women, including Turner, who was fatally shot in 2019 by a police officer in the Houston suburb of Baytown, Texas, after a struggle over his stun gun.

Crump, a prominent civil rights attorney, is also representing Turner's family in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed April 8. Turner's family and their attorneys have said she was suffering a mental health crisis at the time of the shooting. Turner was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2005.

 

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She was fighting the officer for his taser? This is apples to oranges. George Floyd wasn’t fighting.

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