The Greater Akron Fellowship of Clergy announced Wednesday that it stands by Akron resident Dierra Fields and is calling for accountability from the Akron Police Department.
“We support the family and their legal counsel,” the GAFC said in a press release. “The time for inaction has ended. The request for more patience has passed. Dierra deserved better. Her family deserved better. We deserve better.”
An Akron police officer body-slammed Fields to the ground during a family argument on Jan. 11. She was charged with obstructing official business and resisting arrest; a jury found her not guilty in June…