Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump said Tuesday that the violent arrest of a Jacksonville mother illustrates a pattern of excessive force by Jacksonville police against Black motorists for minor traffic infractions.
Erika McGriff, 39, was arrested Oct. 7 after police say she left her car parked and running outside the IDEA charter school on Bassett Road on the city’s Northside.
Police say she became confrontational and scuffled with an officer who approached her about the car…