Lawyer shifts legal fight from George Floyd to Pamela Turner

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The conviction of former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin on murder and manslaughter charges for pinning George Floyd’s neck with his knee was already drawing renewed attention to the legal fight in the death of another Black American, Pamela Turner. Floyd family attorney Ben Crump said Tuesday after the jury announced it had found Chauvin guilty that he would be putting on a march for justice for Black women, including Pamela Turner. Turner was fatally shot in 2019 by a police officer in the Houston suburb of Baytown, Texas, after a struggle over his stun gun. Crump is also representing Turner’s family in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed April 8.