Monday, October 17, 2016

Four Times Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson Showed That Black Lives Matter

With 95 percent of America's federal prosecutors identified as white, Ken Thompson's election as Brooklyn's first black district attorney was no small feat three years ago.

Nonetheless, that win was just one of the many battles he would fight during his career, oftentimes on behalf of disenfranchised communities.

Thompson was remembered at a funeral service Saturday after he died Sunday at age 50 following a brief battle with cancer. 

Remembered by his successor, Chief Assistant District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, as "a giant among those seeking to reform the criminal justice system," Thompson spent years taking stances that were not easy — nor popular.

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Source: NBC News

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