Family of Kendrick Johnson Honor Son One Year After Curious Death
long the way, Florida attorney Benjamin Crump has aligned himself with the Johnson family in hopes to explore other legal means to expedite the federal investigation in to the case that was launched late last year. In an interview with NewsOne, Mr. Crump spoke on behalf of Johnson’s parents by highlighting their frustrations around the case and also announcing a rally in the small town of Valdosta, where the incident took place:
In the year that Kendrick Johnson first went missing in 2013 until this morning in 2014, they [the Johnson family] still have no answers as to who killed their son. Since last month’s rally in Georgia, the family learned that several FBI agents came to Valdosta to interview several students and the school’s faculty as well.
The agents seized the hard drive, by way of a grand jury subpoena, that contained the school’s surveillance video. Now the family has been pushing for this hard drive to be given to our side, but it was given to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. We were a little disappointed because we wanted to evaluate the video ourselves because we have learned from past dealings that the federal investigation can take up to two or three years, and then they come back and say there’s no probable cause and Kendrick’s death is swept under the rug.
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