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D.A. Jackie Lacey says she’s ‘pissed off’ about George Floyd’s murder

by City News Service • June 1, 2020

Jackie Lacey [Image via Twitter]
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey said Monday she was “angry” and “pissed off” when she saw the video capturing the asphyxiation death of a black man in Minneapolis at the hands of a white police officer, while emphasizing her support for peaceful protests and belief that looters are hurting the wrong people.

Lacey was asked during an interview with KTLA5 about building relationships with protest organizations like Black Lives Matter, which has previously called for her resignation based on a lack of convictions for police brutality and excessive force.

“I’m from this community. I grew up in L.A.,” Lacey said. “I care tremendously about these cases. I am upset and angry over the murder of George Floyd in the Minnesota case.

“When I first saw that video … my parents are from the South, my mom’s from Georgia, and my father’s from Texas, and they came here in the ’50s to escape the Jim Crow laws and the violence that was happening against African Americans back then,” Lacey said. “When I saw the Minnesota video and that poor man … just helpless and the look on the officer’s face with his hands in his pocket, just not caring that this was a man who was in distress, and now we know dying, I was angry, I was pissed off.”

Lacey said her office has been reviewing its own cases to “make sure that we make these decisions in a fair and ethical manner. And it is challenging. As you know, many of these cases have filed, have gone to trial, lost. We’ve filed cases against officers for use of force and we’ve had some successes, some not so successful, but I think that the narrative has kind of taken over that is just false.”

The district attorney said she looks forward to sitting down with organizers to have a very frank conversation about police brutality.

“Obviously, it’s illegal. I’m against it,” Lacey said. “But the California laws … do not necessarily permit you to file every case that every person in the public thinks ought to be filed.”

Lacey, who is facing former San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon in a runoff in November, said she has chosen to channel her anger through the system.

“I have chosen to work within the system to make changes,” Lacey said. She told Channel 5 that she read a book by Martin Luther King Jr. this morning and said she agreed with the civil rights leader’s conclusion that “nowhere have riots made the changes that organized protest have brought about in this country.”

“I support the protesters … the peaceful supporters, but I can’t support looting. My mom used to say ‘two wrongs don’t make a right,”‘ Lacey said. “You can be angry, you can be frustrated … but the looting … hurts people who may have had nothing to do with the injustice that we’re seeing.”

She said it was terrible to think of the people already struggling to hold on in the coronavirus crisis now facing additional losses.

“Think of all the people who are just trying to hang on to their livelihood, to their jobs. To see these buildings go up. Those are lives. Those are jobs. Those are people who are just trying to make a living.”

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Home, Los Angeles County

8 comments for "D.A. Jackie Lacey says she’s ‘pissed off’ about George Floyd’s murder"

  1. Daniel says

    June 4, 2020 at 2:27 am

    Another weak D.A.. Afraid to fight the the protesters.

  2. Ron says

    June 2, 2020 at 9:33 am

    Miss Lacy How about charge the people rioting with Domestic Terrorism. Inciting riots, Conspiracy arson, etc.

    • jewl says

      June 2, 2020 at 11:18 am

      Charge cops with the crimes they commit

      • Ron says

        June 2, 2020 at 11:33 am

        Cops should shoot more!!!

    • Alexis says

      June 3, 2020 at 12:20 pm

      Donald Trump is a domestic terrorist. Everything that comes out of his mouth incites.

  3. Ron says

    June 2, 2020 at 9:28 am

    Well were pissed off allowing them to be able to burn down cities. Nothing happens to them. Call in the Military and stop it. These are Domestic Terrorist and should be treated as such.

  4. Rob says

    June 2, 2020 at 8:58 am

    How’s your gun brandishing husband?

    • Trumpist#1 says

      June 2, 2020 at 11:00 am

      Rob:

      You took the words right out of my mouth!

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