Dear Attorney General Lynch,
My name is D. Ishtyme Robinson and I am Ahjah Dixon’s mother. Having lost two children to police brutality has been a long walk of loneliness, alienation coupled with grief and indescribable pain. It has been four years since I drafted my first petition to then Attorney General Eric Holder, and four months since our most recent petition to the current Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in response to the death of my daughter Ahjah Dixon, requesting an investigation into her death at the hands of Navarro County Police, in Corsicana Texas.
At this point in time, four months after the latest petition and four years after the initial petition, no action has been taken by the Justice Department regarding my request. The details of her death and the unanswered questions need to be thoroughly examined.
- Autopsy reports revealed that Ahjah had been beaten, with bruises and contusions, which were described as a lacerated lip and bruises on her body.
- I have petitioned Dallas Corner’s office for autopsy pictures, which I have been denied access to.
- I am requesting a copy of all documentation under the Freedom of Information Act of her stay while in their custody.
Since the death of Ahjah Dixon in Corsicana Texas, Sandra Bland has died 30 or so miles away from Corsicana under similar circumstances. In addition to Sandra Bland’s death, there have been multiple deaths of individuals across the country, who have lost their lives while in police custody.
This letter is a request for you to launch an investigation into Ahjah’s death and so many similar deaths of men and women who have lost their lives while in police custody with no redress or accountability. As a mother, I submit this appeal to you. There is only one thing in the world worse than the loss of your own child and that is the lack of justice for such unthinkable loss.
I am requesting that the Justice Department open unsolved cases of murder regarding police brutality with no justice, in an effort to establish a pattern of genocidal assault of black and brown lives and a void of accountability. For every individual has the right to justice and every misappropriation of justice furthers injustice which must be called into question for as God is our witness, every victim and their family counts, for every case matters! We request Ahjah Dixon’s case be included!
There is no life without liberty, there can be no liberty without justice and there can be no happiness without life. It is in the name of life that I submit this letter to you.
Humbly Submitted,
Rev. Ishtyme Robinson, Ahjah’s Mom
Will you help us get justice for black and brown lives lost to genocide? Our loved ones are worth fighting for, will you sign this petition?
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