Seargeant Jim Parker (LAPD) and Attorney Nana Gyamfi

Sgt. Jim Parker born in Camden, NJ and raised in Philadelphia, PA with five sisters and one brother.  He became a marine in 1982 then joined the LAPD in 1989 as a patrol officer serving in the West L.A, 77th street,  Hollywood, and North Hollywood divisions.  Sgt. Jim Parker was the officer  involved in the controversial detention of a “Django Unchained” actress Daniele Watts, a story that became wide-spread when the actress and her boyfriend took to social media to complain.

Nana Gyamfi  has been a human and civil rights attorney with a specialty in criminal defense since 1994. Nana graduated from Cornell University and earned her law degree from UCLA’s School of Law.

In 1992, while still in law school, Nana worked with Chokwe Lumumba at the Black Law Institute and co-organized and directed the community organizing aspect of the defense for the LA Four Plus, a nickname given to the men charged with the attack on Reginald Denny.

Today, she runs the Crenshaw Legal Clinic where in addition to being an attorney she provides legal ease workshops regarding knowing your rights. The clinic also provides a home for groups that working to abolish the death penalty, freeing political prisoners, and breaking the prison industrial complex.

Website: nanagyamfi.com
Twitter: @attorneynana