Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable May 22, 2012for Immediate ReleaseContact: Earl Ofari Hutchinson323-383-6145 Press Alert: Civil Rights Leaders and Family Members Demand Fast Track Probe By San…

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable

May 22, 2012
for Immediate Release
Contact: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
323-383-6145

Press Alert:

Civil Rights Leaders and Family Members Demand Fast Track Probe By San Diego County District Attorney into Sheriff’s Slaying of Elwood Nile Jihad JaMes Edwards-White

Shooting Comes in Wake of Trayvon Martin Shooting Controversy

May Call for Justice Department Probe

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and civil rights leaders, and family members of 22 year old Elwood Nile Jihad JaMes Edwards-White on Monday, May 21 called on San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis to launch a fast track probe into the slaying by a San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy of Edwards-White near Oceanside Sunday, May 21. Deputies claim that White attacked them with a wooden stick. However, there are conflicting stories about the attack and alleged injuries to others Edwards-White supposedly attacked. The civil rights leaders also question why non-lethal force was not used to subdue White. And they question whether paramedics administered aid to Edwards-White on a timely basis.

 “The shooting by a San Diego Sheriff’s Deputy of White again raises the troubling question of proper police procedures and policies on the use of deadly force,” says Hutchinson,” In the wake of the controversy over the Trayvon Martin killing the DA and the Sheriff’s Department officials have a special duty to be fully transparent in answering those questions about White’s killing.”

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, President Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable

Dwayne Wyatt, L.A Black Employees for Fairness

Debbie Washington National Council of Negro Women

Robert Taylor, Black Ministerial Alliance

Lita Herron, President Youth Advocacy Coalition

Reverend KW Tuloss National Action Network (Al Sharpton) West Coast Representative

Pedro Baez, Founder Voice of the People

Skip Townsend, Cease Fire

Vicky Lindsay Project Cry No More