亚特兰大——一名8岁女孩在几周前Rayshard Brooks被枪杀的地方附近被枪杀，她的父母周一对亚特兰大市和其他人提起诉讼。
赛科里亚·特纳于2020年7月4日被杀，当时她正和母亲及母亲的一个朋友坐在一辆SUV里，在温迪餐厅附近，27岁的黑人布鲁克斯于6月12日被一名白人警察杀害。李思欣·特纳和塞科利·威廉森提起的诉讼称，城市领导人在未能清除与和平抗议者一起聚集在现场的武装义务警员方面表现出疏忽，这造成了导致塞科利娅死亡的危险局面。
“塞科利亚应该在这里。我们所做的一切都不会让我们的孩子回来。她的生命是无价的，”特纳在周一的新闻发布会上说。“我们应该得到公正。需要有人承担责任。”
布鲁克斯被杀后的第二天，这家餐馆被点燃，抗议警察暴行的人们在接下来的几周内露宿街头。该地区设置了临时路障，武装人员封锁了道路，赶走了一些司机。诉讼称，当赛科里亚越野车的司机靠近路障时，武装人员开始向车辆走去，并发出司机不能通过的信号，一个或多个人开枪打中了车辆。
塞科里亚被杀后，这座城市不再容忍抗议者占领温迪的地盘，餐馆烧焦的外壳于7月14日被拆除。
这起诉讼是在富尔顿县州立法院提起的，针对的是该市、市长凯莎·兰斯·波顿、亚特兰大警察局长罗德尼·布赖恩特、市议会成员乔伊斯·谢泼德、温迪国际公司和温迪所在物业的所有者公司。
“由于毫无意义的枪支暴力，塞科里亚·特纳被谋杀，这是一个任何家庭都不应忍受的悲剧。由于预期的诉讼，金融城目前不会提供进一步的评论，”一位金融城发言人说。
警方发言人表示，该部门不对未决诉讼发表评论。谢泼德周一没有立即回复电子邮件。温迪没有立即回复寻求置评的电子邮件。无法立即找到业主的联系信息。
该诉讼称，暴力的武装义务警员混入了聚集在现场抗议警察暴力并向布鲁克斯致敬的和平抗议者中。6月下旬，该地区至少有两人被枪击受伤。诉讼称，街道被武装民兵封锁，武装民兵变得越来越暴力，拒绝让人们通过。
该诉讼称，市政府官员意识到了这种危险情况，并允许其发生。诉讼称，巴斯说，该市计划在塞科里亚死亡前几周清理该地区，但谢泼德要求有更多的时间与抗议者交谈。
该诉讼称，城市和警方领导人无视社区领导人寻求警方帮助的呼吁，也没有采取任何措施解决暴力事件。根据诉讼中引用的6月17日警察局的一封电子邮件，警察被告知要对暴力受害者做出回应，但“不要以任何形式、形式或方式过于积极主动。”
该家庭的律师谢恩·威廉姆斯(Shean Williams)表示:“市长、市议会和警察部门专门决定不在某个地方执法。”他称这是一种独特的情况。
该诉讼指控最高级别的城市领导人未能提供基本的公共安全和公共保护。
诉讼称，温蒂和财产所有人的行为也很疏忽，未能为财产及其入口提供安全保障。
“他们允许一个讨厌的事情在这里发生，”威廉姆斯说。"他们注意到了那件讨厌的事——危险，以及义务警员在这个地方持续存在的危险。"
该诉讼寻求陪审团审判，并要求赔偿金额由陪审团决定。
20岁的朱利安·康利(Julian Conley)被控重罪谋杀和严重伤害罪，目前仍在监狱中。他于7月15日自首，这是警方对他发出逮捕令的第二天。他的律师当时表示，康利携带武器，和平抗议，目睹了枪击事件，但没有开枪。
警方表示，有几个人参与了枪击事件，但没有其他人被捕。塞科里亚父母的律师马乌利·戴维斯(Mawuli Davis)周一表示，这家人一直在与地区检察官办公室和调查人员交谈，对正义的等待令人沮丧。
Parents of 8-year-old girl killed in Atlanta sue city
ATLANTA -- The parents of an 8-year-old girl who was shot and killed near the site where Rayshard Brooks had been shot several weeks earlier filed a lawsuit Monday against the city of Atlanta and others.
Secoriea Turner was slain on July 4, 2020, while riding in an SUV with her mother and a friend of her mother, near the Wendy's restaurant where Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, was killed by a white police officer on June 12. The lawsuit filed by Charmaine Turner and Secoriey Williamson says city leaders showed negligence in failing to remove armed vigilantes who gathered at the site along with peaceful protesters, which created a dangerous situation that led to Secoriea's death.
“Secoriea should be here. None of what we're doing will ever bring our baby back. Her life is priceless,” Turner said during a news conference Monday. “We deserve justice. Someone needs to be held accountable.”
The restaurant was set on fire the day after Brooks' killing, and people protesting police brutality camped out at the site during the weeks that followed. Makeshift barricades had been set up in the area, and armed men had been blocking roads and turning some drivers away. As the driver of the SUV Secoriea was riding in approached the barricade, armed people began walking toward the vehicle and signaling the driver couldn't pass and one or more people shot into the vehicle, the lawsuit says.
The city stopped tolerating protesters occupying the Wendy’s site after Secoriea’s killing, and the charred shell of the restaurant was demolished on July 14.
The lawsuit was filed in Fulton County State Court against the city, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant, City Council member Joyce Sheperd, Wendy's International and the company that owns the property where the Wendy's was located.
“The murder of Secoriea Turner, as a result of senseless gun violence, is a tragedy that no family should have to endure. Due to the anticipated litigation, the City will offer no further comment, at this time,” a city spokesperson said.
A police spokesman said the department doesn't comment on pending litigation. Sheperd didn't immediately respond to an email Monday. Wendy's did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Contact information for the property owner could not immediately be found.
The suit says that violent, armed vigilantes mixed in among the peaceful protesters who gathered at the site to protest police violence and pay tribute to Brooks. At least two people had been shot and wounded in that area in late June. The street was barricaded by an armed militia that became increasingly violent and refused to let people pass, the lawsuit says.
City officials were aware of the dangerous situation and allowed it to happen, the lawsuit says. Bottoms said the city planned to clear the area weeks before Secoriea's death, but Sheperd asked for more time to talk with protesters, the lawsuit says.
City and police leaders ignored community leaders' calls for police help and did nothing to address the violence, the lawsuit says. According to a June 17 police department email quoted in the lawsuit, officers had been told to respond to victims of violence but “not be overly proactive in any shape, form or fashion.”
“The mayor, the city council and the police department are specifically making the decision not to have law enforcement at a certain location," said Shean Williams, a lawyer for the family, calling it a unique situation.
The lawsuit accuses city leaders at the highest levels of failing to provide basic public safety and public protection.
Wendy's and the property owner also behaved negligently by failing to provide safety and security on the property and at its access points, the lawsuit says.
“They allowed a nuisance to occur at the property," Williams said. "They were on notice of that nuisance — the danger, the hazards that persisted with vigilantes being on the property.”
The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and asks for damages in an amount to be determined by a jury.
Julian Conley, 20, is charged with felony murder and aggravated assault in Secoriea's death and remains in jail. He turned himself in July 15, a day after police got warrants for his arrest. His attorney said at the time that Conley was armed and protesting peacefully and witnessed the shooting but did not open fire.
Police have said several people were involved in the shooting, but no one else has been arrested. Mawuli Davis, a lawyer for Secoriea's parents, said Monday that the family has been talking with the district attorney's office and investigators and that the wait for justice has been frustrating.
