NAACP GIVES $1,000 TO KICK OFF JESSIE DAVIS DEFENSE FUND.(Local)

Byline: Joe Mahoney Staff writer

NAACP officials announced Wednesday that the group has contributed $1,000 to the Jessie Davis Defense Fund and is trying to raise a total of $15,000 for a civil rights lawsuit by the Davis family against the city of Albany and its Police Department.

The plaintiff in the case, Louise Thornton of Albany, the sister of Jessie Davis and the administrator of his estate, is seeking $30 million in damages, contending that Albany police wrongfully killed her brother in July 1984. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in July 1987, said Albany attorney Lewis B. Oliver Jr., who prepared the lawsuit on behalf of Thornton.

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