I didn’t know that Ken Thompson just died. He was only 50.
Ken was involved in many key cases, such as the sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the police sexual battery case on behalf of Abner Louima, and the movement to reopen the DOJ investigation on Emmett Till’s 1955 murder in Mississippi. He was an active participant in the felony exoneration movement, clearing over 20 prisoners’ names as District Attorney.
He was only two years into his first term as the first African-American District Attorney for Brooklyn/Kings County when he died of cancer on Sunday.
