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Lawyer shifts legal fight from George Floyd to Pamela Turner Attorney Ben Crump speaks during a news conference after the verdict was read in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) April 20, 2021 - 6:25 PM MINNEAPOLIS - The conviction Tuesday of former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin on murder and manslaughter charges for pinning George Floyd's neck with his knee was already drawing renewed attention to the legal fight in the death of another Black American, Pamela Turne...

Lawyer shifts legal fight from George Floyd to Pamela Turner April 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - In this Thursday, April 8, 2021, file photo, attorney Benjamin Crump talks to reporters during a news conference in which he announced the filing of a federal lawsuit against Baytown Police Officer Juan Delacruz in the death of Pamela Turner, outside the Harris County Civil Courthouse in Houston. The conviction Tuesday, April 20, 2021, of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin on murder and manslaughter charges for pinning George Floyd's neck with his knee was alr...

MINNEAPOLIS — The conviction Tuesday of former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin on murder and manslaughter charges for pinning George Floyd’s neck with his knee was already drawing renewed attention to the legal fight in the death of another Black American, Pamela Turner. Floyd family attorney Ben Crump said after the jury announced it had found Chauvin guilty on all counts that he would be putting on a march for justice for Black women, including Turner, who was fatally shot in 2019 by a police officer in the Houston suburb of Baytown, Texas, after a struggle over his stun gun. “If yo...

HOUSTON —  Family members of a Black woman who was fatally shot near her Texas apartment after struggling with an officer over his stun gun filed a federal civil rights Thursday, saying they are still seeking justice for her. Pamela Turner, 44, was killed in May 2019 in the parking lot of her suburban Houston apartment complex after a confrontation with Baytown Officer Juan Delacruz, who also lived at the complex. Delacruz shot Turner after a struggle over the officer’s stun gun that a bystander captured on video. Turner’s family and their attorneys have said Turner, who was diagnos...

April 8, 2021, 6:09 PM) Antoinette Dorsey-James addresses the public as Chelsie Rubin, right, looks on, at a press conference announcing the filing of a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Baytown on April 8, 2021. Dorsey-James' sister and Rubin's mother, Pamela Turner, was shot and killed by Baytown Police in 2019. Updated 6:09 p.m. CT April 8 The family of Pamela Turner, a Black woman who was killed by a Baytown police officer in May 2019, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city in federal court Thursday. The suit lists as defendants officer Juan Delacruz, the city of Ba...