“Her record is terrible! I mean, the thing is that when it comes to where it counts, her record is terrible,” said human rights attorney Nana Gyamfi.
According to Atty. Gyamfi, recently D.A. Lacey has adopted a position of criminalizing and jailing children who are victims of sex trafficking until pushed to understand that was wrong.
“She was putting them in jail! She was grabbing them, arresting them, and putting them in jail. So people had to be like, no, this is not the way that you should be operating, and that is just a general thing,” Atty. Gyamfi said.
D.A. Lacey’s record also includes the prosecution of Jasmine Abdullah for attempted lynching, in order to appease the Pasadena Police Department, Atty. Gyamfi said. “But it’s not surprising considering that you haven’t found a killer cop that you think is deserving of prosecution,” she argued.
Atty. Gyamfi represented Ms. Abdullah, then a Black Lives Matter activist, in a case stemming from a park incident with Pasadena Police officers on August 29, 2015.
Ms. Abdullah was convicted of one count of attempted felony lynching (taking someone from the lawful custody of police by means of a riot), a law believed to be designed to protect Blacks from White lynch mobs.
“It’s clear that she is completely complicit and feels beholden and loyal to these police departments, even when we had a meeting where she revealed that there is a contractual agreement between the district attorney’s office and all 50 plus law enforcement agencies in L.A. County that the D.A.’s office will not investigate police shootings, police killings until after the law enforcement agency has investigated itself, even though they have the power and the duty to investigate from the very beginning independently,” Atty. Gyamfi said.
“But no. She said why we can’t do that is because we have a contract with these people, that we will let them do their own investigation and we won’t get involved until after they are done with their investigation, which is a complete abdication of her duty to independently investigate those crimes in total support of the police. There’s no other reason to have such an agreement. It doesn’t help the people at all,” she continued.