The NAACP of Jefferson Parish demand justice for the death of Keeven Robinson and shamed the protesters who clashed with JPSO deputies on the elevated Westbank Expressway.
Robinson died while in JPSO custody two years ago.
Speaking to reports at a press conference Friday outside the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, President of the NAACP of Jefferson Parish Gaylor A. Spiller scolded the protesters who broke through JPSO barricades and entered the elevated Westbank Expressway during Tuesday’s protests.
“We were not the ones who broke through that barricade at Derbigny and Westbank Expressway,” Spiller said. “We were not the individuals on that bridge. We were right where you are now, in front of the sheriff’s place. The guys they were trying to apprehend, apparently something happened on that bridge that we were not aware of.”
Spiller continues, “And I am very sad and disappointed that people would join a protest that we put on for the Robinson family, and put us in danger. I am upset and I am an angry black woman, simply because both sides disappointed me.”
The NAACP also called on Sheriff Joe Lopinto to take action against police misconduct and to mandate all JPSO deputies wear body cameras which the organization help write into House Resolution, HR-9 which will create a the reform policy by next year. HR-9 will be debated on the House floor next week.
