Black youth leader says he was mistakenly detained, escorted outside half-naked by Los Angeles deputies
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 25, 2023
A Black California youth leader says he woke last week at 4 a.m. to find deputies in his bedroom, guns drawn, who then escorted him out of his home half-naked — only to let him go after realizing he was not a burglary suspect they were looking for.
Derrick Cooper, 54, said when he was wrongfully detained on April 18, he felt “less than human” and “humiliated.”
“I was not valued as a human being,” he told NBC News on Tuesday. “To just come in and blatantly take . . .
