23-year-old filmmaker JAMAL SHAKIR will join civil rights attorney CARL DOUGLAS and Black Lives Matter Los Angeles co-founder DR. MELINA ABDULLAH to announce a new lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and Shakir’s uncle LAPD POLICE OFFICER II
ERIC ANDERSON after the latter ordered his nephew shot with projectiles during a protest in downtown Los Angeles last summer.
(Shakir, Douglas, and Dr. Melina Abdullah will announce a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and Officer Eric Anderson today, Tue., May 11 at 12:30 p.m. in front of LAPD Headquarters.)
Jamal Shakir had a chance encounter with his uncle on May 29, 2020, when he attended his first BLACK LIVES MATTER protest. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police, he was drawn out of his Spring Street apartment by the energy pulsing through the streets of downtown Los Angeles, where thousands of people had gathered in support of the BLM movement.