Sister of 1986 hate crime murder victim files $15M discrimination suit against Brooklyn DA

The sister of racial hate murder victim Michael Griffith is suing Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson claiming she was canned as an investigator in the prosecutor's office because of her strong ties to Thompson’s predecessor.

Brenda Sandiford Crockwell alleges in her $15 million discrimination suit filed Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court that she was fired merely one week after her arrest for shoplifting at a Walmart in October 2014.

Crockwell, 35, had been hired in 2004 by then-Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes, who knew her family because he had been the special prosecutor in the infamous killing of her brother.

Griffith was fatally struck by a car in 1986 after he was chased by a group of white youths onto the Belt Parkway in the predominantly white neighborhood of Howard Beach.

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