{"id":28042,"date":"2022-01-23T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=28042"},"modified":"2022-01-23T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T18:48:01","slug":"community-members-rally-asking-for-justice-for-cedric-lofton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/23\/community-members-rally-asking-for-justice-for-cedric-lofton\/","title":{"rendered":"Community members rally asking for justice for Cedric Lofton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WICHITA, Kan (KSNW) \u2013 On Friday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/newly-released-jiac-video-shows-footage-of-cedric-loftons-fatal-interaction\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/newly-released-jiac-video-shows-footage-of-cedric-loftons-fatal-interaction\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sedgwick County released video footage that shows the last moments Cedric Lofton was awake and breathing while in custody<\/a>. This comes months after his death.<\/p>\n<p>People are calling for more to be done. Not only because they were finally able to see the video, but because the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/local\/watch-live-da-holds-news-conference-unknown-subject\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/local\/watch-live-da-holds-news-conference-unknown-subject\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kansas district attorney said there will be no charges<\/a> based on the stand your ground laws in Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need justice for this young man that laws have to be changed immediately. This is unreal,\u201d said Kimberly Collins, who attended <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/local\/justice-for-cedric-lofton-rally-held-monday-outside-sedgwick-county-courthouse\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/local\/justice-for-cedric-lofton-rally-held-monday-outside-sedgwick-county-courthouse\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a rally Saturday of people pushing for more to be done<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Organizers at the rally passed around a petition calling for justice for 17-year-old Lofton after District Attorney Marc Bennett made it clear that there will be no charges. Bennett cited very strong stand your ground laws, but some want a new set of legal eyes on the case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/local\/wichita-naacp-meets-to-discuss-cedric-loftons-death\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tWichita NAACP meets to discuss Cedric Lofton\u2019s death\t<\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re signing the petition trying to get a special prosecutor to reopen the case. So C.J. Lofton can receive justice,\u201d said Treva Graham-Smith, an organizer of the event. <\/p>\n<p>Many at the event discussed the videos inside JIAC that were released the night before showing the last moments Cedric Lofton was awake and breathing while being held in custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have watched the video about three times. I can\u2019t watch it anymore, because it\u2019s senseless,\u201d said Graham-Smith. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt brought tears to my eyes. The little kid could be anybody\u2019s little brother or cousin and initially, it didn\u2019t look threatening to me,\u201d said Oletha Faust-Goudeau, a member of the Kansas Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Faust-Goudeau said she wanted to attend the event to show support for the family and prevent a situation like this from happening again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a shame that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/local\/parents-of-cedric-lofton-demand-access-to-video-showing-sons-death-while-in-custody\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/local\/parents-of-cedric-lofton-demand-access-to-video-showing-sons-death-while-in-custody\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the family had to go through the open records act<\/a> to even get footage of what happened to their loved one. So, we would just require within the law that the family get that information immediately,\u201d said Faust-Goudeau.<\/p>\n<p>She is not yet certain when lawmakers could get some changes into committee this year but hopes to get something up this session for a vote. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksn.com\/news\/community-members-rally-asking-for-justice-for-cedric-lofton\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] WICHITA, Kan (KSNW) \u2013 On Friday, Sedgwick County released video footage that shows the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cj-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28044,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28042\/revisions\/28044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}