How a Black prosecutor called out racism in the Los Angeles County D.A.’s office
The headlines read as though they were written by protesters who routinely demonstrated outside the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.When Innocence Is Inconvenient.Unsparingly criticizing the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office, the accompanying essays accused the agency of a smorgasbord of malfeasance: racial discrimination, failing to protect employees from sexual harassment and failing to hold police accountable for misconduct.
When that didn’t work, he used the only weapon he thought he had left: his voice. In a dozen essays published on Medium “A friend of mine told me being a prosecutor, especially as an African American male, is good because there’s not very many, and you could do a lot of good in the world,” he said. Taylor faced up to 10 years in prison. Immediately Oduye had concerns. The officers’ stories were practically identical.Taylor’s defense attorney produced photos showing the couch sat flush against the floor, leaving no room for a shoe box. Oduye said that he questioned the deputies and that they insisted an 8-inch gap separated couch and floor.The Times reviewed video evidence that showed the deputies filmed every part of the search — except when the gun and drugs were allegedly recovered.
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