The officer fired his taser eight times in less than two minutes and Alfonso Brown died in police custody
Alfonso Brown’s family retained Pleasant, Williams & Banks-Miley Law Group LLC wherein Attorneys Kristen B. Pleasant, Jessica Williams, and Donecia Banks-Miley will be handling the civil case. The attorneys filed a lawsuit in the Fourth Judicial District Court for the State of Louisiana, Ouachita Parish, this week.
The Brown family joins countless African-American families who have lost loved ones from excessive police force. The Brown family asks for your support as they seek justice for Alfonso Brown. Please donate on the Justice For Alfonso Brown Go Fund Me page at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-alfonso-brown
Alfonso Brown died June 17, 2019, while handcuffed in police custody at Dillard’s in the Pecanland Mall parking lot in Monroe, Louisiana. The Monroe Police Department officer worked as an off-duty officer while he arrested Alfonso Brown for an alleged shoplifting. According to the reports, the officer fired his taser eight times in less than two minutes. Alfonso Brown suffered a medical emergency. Brown died at the age of 36, handcuffed. We recently learned that the District Attorney’s office presented the case to a grand jury, and the grand jury returned a no true bill on October 17, 2019. However, the circumstances surrounding Brown’s death are still quite a bit unclear.
Over the last year protests for the death of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, and Daniel Prude have reminded us of Alfonso Brown. Each day we think about what really happened to Alfonso. It is our goal to continue to find the answers and to obtain justice.
