With all the High-profile instances of law enforcement behaving badly have made the issue of police accountability a priority. Too often abuses of power by the police, whether through excessive force, profiling, stop and frisk or other tactics, even if caught on tape, go unpunished. Therefore this week's conversation will be focus strategies to advocate for change!

The Justice for Gerard Movement presents…..

TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT!

Friday April 22, 2022 6pm EDT

So join Jay Love Host,

-Attorney Hugo Mack,

-Trischè Duckworth,

-Alexanderia Hughes

-Rev Tia Littlejohn along with our guest:

Attorney David Robinson

Robinson and Associates P.C.

28145 Greenfield Road

Suite 100

Southfield, MI 48073

248-423-7234

248-423-7227 (fax)

Topic: Advocating for Police Accountability

"Community Accountability"

Addressing Harm, Hurt and Healing

for Safer Communities pt 3"

David A. Robinson was born in Detroit, Michigan. Attorney Robinson worked for the Detroit Police Department both as an officer and an attorney. He served the Detroit Police Department for 13 years, as legal advisor to the department. He also defended officers in civil litigation. As part of his responsibilities, he was required to teach the legal section to recruits in the Detroit Metropolitan Police Academy. During these same years, Attorney Robinson obtained a part-time teaching position at Wayne State University Criminal Justice Department.

Attorney David Robinson has litigated in the area of police misconduct for both defense and plaintiffs. He has taken, to settlement or verdict, hundreds of police misconduct matters involving the gamut of wrongful arrests to wrongful deaths at the hands of police officers. He has litigated cases in federal court and circuit courts in the tri-county areas as well as courts in the states of Ohio and Louisiana. David associated with Johnny Cochran, Barry Scheck, and Peter Neufeld (of O.J. Simpson fame), in the wrongful conviction case of Eddie Joe Lloyd, which resulted in a settlement of $4,000,000. This case also resulted in an agreement whereby the City of Detroit conceded that all interrogations and interviews of suspects in serious offenses will be recorded, including police chase cases, accident cases and other police shooting cases not resulting in death.

In addition, Attorney Robinson has litigated cases involving the death of pre-trial detainees in Detroit jails which resulted in six and seven figure settlements. The Detroit Jailhouse litigation was instrumental in the closure of the 8th and 9th floors of the DPD lockups. David has also represented citizens who were wrongfully held as witnesses by DPD homicide. These cases were brought under federal civil rights statutes and demonstrated the abject failure of the DPD homicide section to honor the Constitutional rights of Detroit citizens. These cases have resulted in settlements; the most egregious among them was one that involved the wrongful arrest and detention of more than 40 citizens in the investigation of a single homicide.

Attorney David Robinson has authored a book on the subject called “You See a Hero, I see a Human Being.” It is available at momentumbooks.com and Amazon. The E-book is available at iTunes. Website: www.davidarobinsonlaw.com

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