Sylvester citizens rally against police brutality:
"'Enough is enough,' said Bruce Washington. 'This is 2004, not 1940.'
They say they know it was police brutality that killed Herman Jackson. And they've had enough.
John Cole Vodicka, director of civil rights group the Prison & Jail Project, told the crowd that most police officers are good enforcers of the law.
'But we also have some very bad law enforcement officials,' Vodicka said. 'Either because they're poorly trained and underpaid or because they're mean spirited and racist bigots.'
Vodicka sent a letter to the US Attorney's office asking that the FBI investigate Jackson's death.
The Sylvester Mayor Bill Yearta said the city is doing an investigation with the GBI.
'We won't tolerate police brutality,' Yearta said. 'We have good police officers and then we have some that aren't good police officers.' "
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
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