Los Angeles County District Atty. Jackie Lacey told us that charging a police officer with a crime is difficult, but demonstrators are right to raise the issue.

"People forget that I am an African American woman who grew up in the Crenshaw district in the community, and I remember what policing was like back in the seventies, when I was a teenager in the eighties," she said in an interview with AirTalk. 

Los Angeles County District Atty. Jackie Lacey told us that charging a police officer with a crime is difficult, but demonstrators are right to raise the issue.
"People forget that I am an African American woman who grew up in the Crenshaw district in the community, and I remember what policing was like back in the seventies, when I was a teenager in the eighties," she said in an interview with AirTalk.&nbsp;

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LA District Atty.: 'I'm Angry... So Many African American Men Have Been Murdered At The Hands Of Police'

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