Attorney Ben Crump and Harry Daniels announced on Sunday that he has been retained to represent a Jacksonville woman who was arrested after being accused of biting and punching an officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

The woman, Erika McGriff, 39, was arrested on Tuesday, Oct. 7, after illegally parking her car at an intersection near IDEA charter school on Bassett Rd., according to JSO during a press conference.

Crump released the following statement:

This disturbing video shows yet another example of unnecessary and excessive force used against a Black woman during what should have been a routine encounter. No mother should be brutalized in front of her child and community for something as minor as a parking issue. We will fight to hold the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office ac

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