Act Daily News
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For greater than three years, Jimmy Hill has saved a weekly vigil outdoors the places of work of the Fulton County district lawyer in Atlanta, distributing fliers about his son’s loss of life by the hands of police and demanding justice.
This week, former Atlanta police officer Sung Kim was indicted on prices of felony homicide, involuntary manslaughter and violation of oath by public officer in reference to the taking pictures loss of life of 21-year-old Jimmy Atchison in January 2019, based on Jeff DiSantis, a spokesman for the DA’s workplace.
It’s not clear if Kim, who retired from the Atlanta Police Department, has an lawyer.
“Oh man, it hasn’t hit me yet,” Hill stated over the telephone Friday evening.
The case had languished amidst a backlog of hundreds of circumstances in Fulton County brought on partly by the Covid-19 pandemic, Act Daily News beforehand reported.
“It’ll hit me in a minute,” Hill stated. “I’m relieved but we still have a lot more to fight.”
Hill, 60, stated he discovered of the grand jury indictment from his lawyer earlier Friday. His household expects to carry a news convention with the members of the NAACP and their lawyer on Monday.
Atchison was shot and killed on January 22, 2019, by the Atlanta police officer. Atchison was unarmed when he was shot within the face after a foot chase.
An investigation by the earlier administration on the Fulton County DA’s workplace discovered the taking pictures to be unjustified and advisable the officer who killed Atchison be charged with felony homicide.
The officer has stated he believed Atchison was armed however investigators later confirmed he was not, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution beforehand reported.
Officers had been pursuing Atchison at an condo complicated whereas attempting to arrest him on a warrant.
Georgia NAACP Chapter President Gerald Griggs stated he acquired a letter from the DA’s workplace in April stating there was a backlog of 11,000 circumstances – attributable partly to the pandemic – plus an estimated 55,000 circumstances that weren’t correctly closed by the earlier administration, Act Daily News has reported.
In current years different households whose youngsters have been killed by police have joined Hill on the weekly demonstrations, holding posters with photographs and details about the circumstances.
“Some of these families are barely holding on to their sanity,” Hill advised Act Daily News in October. “People don’t understand what police brutality does to the family and the community. It challenges your mental health.”