The family of Atlanta Deacon is looking for justice when death

Atlanta-Die family of a 62-year-old Atlanta Deacon, who died on Wednesday after a meeting with the district prosecutor of Fulton, Fani Willis, after being involved by a police officer.

On August 10, 2023, Johnny Hollman was tasked by the then officer Kiran Kimbrough. Hollman reported that he was one of the officers who replied to examine a traffic accident. An autopsy report showed that Hollman died of heart dysrhythmia that resulted from the performance.

Kimbrough was released after the incident, and the city reached a settlement of 3.8 million US dollars against the family of the church diacon about his death. In April, the city board confirmed its discharge after he had submitted an appointment.

After seven meetings with Willis in the past two years, the family's lawyer, Mawuli Davis, said that the meeting on Wednesday was encouraging for the family.

Davis said that a decision or decision by Willis will take place in the next few weeks.

“Today was a” I need a few more weeks and we will have a decision “and there we are there, what we are looking forward to, for what the family prayed for,” Davis told 11alive.

The family also hopes that the towing car driver involved will be prosecuted. The family sued the truck driver who was on site during the fight and joined the police to submit Hollman.

According to Davis, Willis looked at the family and said: “This is a serious matter on which we have worked, and we hope to bring them to a conclusion or at least give a final answer.”

Bodycam video showed that Kimbrough initiated an arrest, and then the two fought just before Kimbrough, which Hollman brought to the ground, and ordered him to put his hands behind his back and push his head and body into the ground. Hollman was heard and said: “I can't breathe”.

After Kimbrough Tased Hollman, the deacon no longer reacted.

After Hollman's death, the city revised the police procedures for traffic quotes and enabled the officials to write “refusal to sign” in the signature line instead of arrest.

The violations of the standard procedure, which the Atlanta police quoted in the dismissal of Kimbrough, did not call a superior to the scene that Hollman asked before the fight.

Davis said

“We know across the country that it is extremely difficult for the law enforcement agencies to be arrested, arrested and convicted of the death of a citizen, and unfortunately it is that the system worked in this way,” he added.

The family remains confident that the criminal justice system will provide a cheap answer.

11Alive turned to Fulton County's public prosecutor, who at that time refused at this stage.