‘Literally Fighting for Your Life’: Diamonds Ford’s Attorney Says Officers Failed to Adequately Announce Themselves During Drug Raid as Community Bails Out One of Two Defendants
A Jacksonville, Florida, woman who faces the prospect of life in prison for shooting a deputy during a police raid last year was recently released from jail after a community group raised $535,006 to pay her bail. Diamonds Ford, 28, spent 130 days behind bars before a coalition of social reform groups sprung her from…