'It's both unconscionable and illegal for Lexington residents to be terrorized and live in fear of the police department whose job is to protect them,' says JULIAN's JillCollen. 'We need both the courts and the Department of Justice to step in.'
"We need both the courts and the Department of Justice to step in immediately," said the head of one civil rights group involved in a new lawsuit against Lexington and its police department.Black residents of Lexington, Mississippi are calling for a U.S.
"It's both unconscionable and illegal for Lexington residents to be terrorized and live in fear of the police department whose job is to protect them," JULIAN founder and president Jill Collen JeffersonThe suit, which notes that 23 LPD officers have resigned over the past year, alleges that"the culture of Lexington is corrupt" and that"the city is in a sense under its own martial law with Black citizens held hostage to the police, afraid to leave their homes.
The Lexington Board of Aldermen voted 3-2 last month to fire Dobbins and promote Henderson after JULIANnearly 17 minutes of audio secretly recorded by former Black officer Robert Lee Hooker in which the former chief boasts that he has killed 13 people over the course of his career. The new lawsuit alleges that despite his termination, Dobbins"continues to menace the community, patrolling in the passenger seat of a police-issued vehicle with an on-duty officer."
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