Crump calls for probe into Florida sheriff's office
Associated Press
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COCOA, Fla. (AP) — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has called on the Justice Department to investigate a Florida sheriff's office after a deputy fatally shot two Black teenagers last year. He also asked the Justice Department to review a local prosecutor's decision not to bring any charges.
Crump, and another attorney for the teens' families, called for the investigation Friday into the office of Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey, saying problems go beyond the shooting deaths of Sincere Pierce and Angelo “A.J.” Crooms by Deputy Jafet Santiago-Miranda.
“You will see the allegations we have are not only against the officers, because the officer is born of a culture that Wayne Ivey has provided for his officers in Brevard County,” said Natalie Jackson, one of the attorney for the teenagers' families.