A police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Lima, Ohio mother during a Jan. 4 drug raid in her home as her infant son rested in her arms was recently found not guilty by an all white jury.Tarika Wilson, 26, was killed that night by Sgt. Joseph Chavalia, and her 13-month-old baby, Sincere Wilson, who was shot in the shoulder and hand. An injured finger was later amputated afterwards. Life goes on in the United States and in large part doesn't change. Jesse Jackson and local church...
leaders are deciding the next course of action. Calling the all-white jury's verdict "an injustice," Mr. Jackson said the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, an activist group he founded, plans to take action in the situation, but only under the leadership of Lima's Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, a coalition of the city's black religious community.
The Rev. H. Frank Taylor, pastor of Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Lima, who is also President of the ministers' alliance, said the group will take action as a result of the acquittal.
The ministers called an emergency meeting Tuesday after the verdict was announced the day before.
They will meet Monday at Shiloh Missionary Church to determine a course of action, Mr. Taylor said.
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