In less than a decade, the Florida-based attorney has become the voice for the families of Trayvon Martin, Micheal Brown, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd – Black people whose deaths at the hands of police and vigilantes sparked a movement.
He has won multimillion-dollar settlements in police brutality cases. He’s pushed cities to ban no-knock warrants. He has told a congressional committee that reform is needed because “it’s become painfully obvious we have two systems of justice; one for white Americans and one for Black Americans,”