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Police Force Cutting into Family Ties: 23-Year-Old Targeted by an Order Given by His Uncle
By Betti Halsell, Contributing Writer
Published May 20, 2021
Jamal Shakir graduated with two bachelor’s degrees in Kinesiology and Digital Creative Media and Film, from LaGrange College, a private college in Georgia that’s ranked top 10 by U.S. News and World Report. (courtesy of Douglas Hicks Law)
On Tuesday, May 10, Attorney Carl Douglas, and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles Co-founder Melina Abdullah joined 23-year-old filmmaker Jamal Shakir to announce a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and LAPD police officer, Eric Anderson. The premise of the case sounded like many others, law enforcement using overly aggressive force to manage a peaceful protest, but for Shakir, the order for his attack came directly from a family member.
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A 23-year-old man is suing the Los Angeles Police Department, including his uncle on the force, over an incident during a May 2020 rally in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Asim Jamal Shakir Jr. claimed in a lawsuit filed on Monday that his uncle ordered other officers to fire hard-foam projectiles at him, which led him to get a series of medical, psychological, and psychiatric treatments. The lawsuit claims that law enforcement violated Shakir s civil rights by using unreasonable force and not adhering to proper training procedures. There isn’t a paycheck in the world that should be worth your morals and values and family,” Shakir said Tuesday, according to a report by the