Bio
Jasmine Groves is the president of Families Overcoming Injustice and participated in the ACLU of Louisiana’s virtual Town Hall about Justice Lab: Putting Racist Policing on trial.
Featured Work
My Mother Was Killed By a Police Officer on the Eve of My 13th Birthday. Here’s Why I’m Still Fighting for Justice
My name is Jasmine Groves and I am the youngest of three children of Kim Marie Groves. A former New Orleans police officer Len Davis put a hit on my mother in retaliation for her witnessing him beat a teenager in our neighborhood and filing a complaint against him. The day my mother reported Officer Davis was the day before my 13th birthday. About 3:30pm, she called the office to file the complaint, and it usually took 24 to 72 hours for an officer to be notified of a complaint against them. Unfortunately, Davis knew within hours of my mother filing the complaint; by the time she made it home that night, the hit to take her life was already set.