An attorney representing the family of a man murdered when police used their Tasers on him more than 50 times in 2019 is making an important call of federal investigators investigating police brutality, and that is not to overlook rural America. Former Oklahoma police officers Brandon Dingman and Joshua Taylor were convicted on Nov. 8 of murdering Jared Lakey, 28, in the second degree when they used their Tasers in a manner the court determined was both «dangerous and unnecessary,» according to The Washington Post. The officers targeted Lakey in Wilson, Oklahoma, a city about 100 miles south of Oklahoma City with a population of 1,399, according to U.S. Census results from 2020. ”These officers didn’t violate their policy or training, they tortured Jared precisely because that’s how Wilson, Oklahoma, decided to police the community,” Spencer Bryan, the Lakey family’s attorney, told The Washington Post. In calling for justice in rural America, he referenced the high-profile police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, whose deaths led to Department of Justice investigations of the police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky. “Southern Oklahoma isn’t a major metropolitan area, but the people here are just as important as those in Minneapolis or Louisville,” Bryan said in a statement the Post obtained. “The DOJ needs to take seriously its duty to protect all Americans and investigate what’s happening to rural America.” Read more