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A lawsuit filed Thursday night by civil rights attorneys Benjamin Crump, Natalie Jackson and Steven Hart over the shooting death of two Black Cocoa teens by a Brevard County Sheriff s deputy goes beyond putting the actions of two deputies on trial; it s an indictment of Sheriff Wayne Ivey s office. You will see the allegations we have are not only against the officers, because the officer is born of a culture that Wayne Ivey has provided for his officers in Brevard County, Natalie Jackson told media and supporters standing outside the Moore Justice Center in Viera Friday morning. Crump, flanked by co-counsel Jackson, the families of Sincere Pierce and Angelo A.J. Crooms and local activists and community members, called for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Sheriff s Office and also review the decision by State Attorney Phil Archer not to charge BCSO deputy Jafet Santiago-Miranda in the killing of A.J. and Pierce. ....
Lawsuit blames culture of recklessness in Florida sheriff s office for fatal shooting of Black teens Tyler Vazquez and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon, Florida Today Ben Crump in Viera: Asks U.S. Justice to investigate death of 2 Black teens, BCSO Replay Video BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced a lawsuit Friday after a deputy fatally shot a 16-year-old and 18-year-old in Florida last year. The lawsuit comes the day after the state attorney’s office announced that the officer who shot and killed the two Black teens, 18-year-old Sincere Pierce and 16-year-old Angelo A.J. Crooms, would not face criminal charges. ....
Support local journalism. An unlimited digital subscription to floridatoday.com is just $1 for 3 months. Click here and subscribe today. Arm in arm, the families of two teenagers killed by a Brevard County sheriff s deputy in Cocoa last year walked with high-profile civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump to the lawn outside the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Justice Center in Viera Friday. With a crowd of around 50 supporters, Tallahassee-based Crump and co-counsel Natalie Jackson announced officially the filing of a lawsuit against Deputy Jafet-Santiago-Miranda and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office for the shooting deaths of 18-year-old Sincere Pierce and 16-year-old Angelo A.J. Crooms on Nov. 13, 2020. ....
The Brevard County Sheriff s Office had a duty not to retain deputies like Santiago-Miranda, who has repeatedly shown that they were unfit for service, and expose citizens like Crooms and Pierce to such unfitness, the lawsuit alleges. The Brevard County Sheriff s Office breached that duty when it retained and placed Santiago-Miranda armed on the street of Brevard County, despite his criminal history and demonstrated violent tendencies over the course of more than a decade. and as recently as a few months before killing A.J. Crooms and Sincere Pierce. The lawsuit alleges that Santiago-Miranda had an alarming and disqualifying criminal history of such a level that he should not have been a deputy. ....
And we interviewed Jaquan Kimbrough-Rucker, the third teen in the car and only survivor. Archer wrote that perhaps we should not interview witnesses to crimes until after the investigation is complete because in our interview, Kimbrough-Rucker told us something different than he said under oath to Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He told us they couldn t hear what the deputy was shouting over the loud music in the car and about their confusion; he told FDLE the music was loud but he heard the deputy s shouts to stop, again emphasizing their confusion. In BCSO s own report, they note that Kimbrough-Rucker told FDLE something that contradicted their own investigation into the speed and direction of the car. ....