Law firm, civil rights group to look into police shooting
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP) — A law firm and a Muslim civil rights group say they plan to conduct a civil rights investigation after police fatally shot a Georgia woman.
The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Awad Law Firm said in a news release Sunday that they had agreed to represent the family of 36-year-old Shukri Ali Said, who died Saturday. They say Said was mentally ill.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said preliminary information indicates that Johns Creek police responded around 7:13 a.m. Saturday to a report of a woman threatening a family member with a knife. The GBI says officers found Said near an intersection and that she didn't respond to their commands to drop the knife.