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From Amanda Bronstad, From The National Law JournalMembers of the National Bar Association called on black lawyers to advocate for victims and protesters of police brutality by representing them in civil cases and pushing for reforms of the criminal justice system.
You are our family,” said Nicole Lee, who started the Black Law Movement Project, which has been training attorneys since the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police shooting death of Michael Brown.
NBA President Pamela Meanes told The National Law Journal earlier this week that police brutality issues became pivotal to the group’s agenda after the death of Eric Garner in New York a year ago.
“We have the contacts in the national civil rights world,” Lee said.
“We need to be using those contacts for the benefit of this movement.”On Tuesday, several attorneys who handle police brutality cases talked about the challenges of such cases, both procedurally and in using the media to dispel the images portrayed about their clients.