lor ret lynch, who will succeed me will be effective. tomorrow eric holder talks about the war on drugs, voteding and civil rights. it s been nearly two years since georgia teen kendrick johnson was found dead in a rolled up gym mat. joy talks to his parents.
the local coroner opined. has the county ben, you can answer this question. has the county been in communications with the family to explain their reasoning in the case or to explain how the investigation was conducted? quite simply, joy, they told jackie and kendrick s father, ken, that even though they sent him to school with a book bag, he was returned home to them in a body bag and that he died from his own doing, trying to get a tennis shoe from out of a rolled up wrestling mat, got stuck and died. and that s their explanation and that has been their explanation. that s why ken and jackie refuse to accept that and say, we know foul play was involved. that our son was killed and we want to find out who killed our son. and mrs. johnson, if i may ask you, was there anyone you know of that had been threatening your son? had he been in fights with anyone at school, to your
that s who they think did it, too. ben, there is an individual or individuals the family believes was involved in kendrick s death? well, they know the u.s. attorney s office in macon, georgia, michael moore is investigating. they sent target letters out to certain individuals who were schoolmates of kendrick as a target of an investigation to find out if they had anything at all to do with kendrick s death. and those target letters were sent to the children of an fbi agent in the georgia area. so, it is very telling that the u.s. attorney s office is investigating this matter as a homicide. because they heard everything that was presented by the local authorities and they did not accept that as being conclusive
for their investigation and chose to investigate it as a homicide. so, now this case is being investigated by the federal government? yes, ma am. thanks to the efforts of jackie johnson and ken johnson, who went every day to courthouse square in valdosta, georgia, and held up a son that said, please help us find out who killed our son, kendrick. lastly, mrs. johnson, are you confident you will get some kind of resolution from the federal government that you were not able to get from the county? yes, i am. what makes you confident in that? they re still working on my son s case. they haven t gave up on us. joy, and i please allow us to express to america that she s fighting for the legacy of her child. she knows she s not going to get her child back, but they are pushing kendrick s law which is
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