500 Protest NYPD Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Teenager

500 Protest NYPD Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Teenager

About 500 protesters rallied in the Bronx, New York, Monday to protest last week’s police shooting of an unarmed teenager inside his parents’ house. Eighteen-year-old Ramarley Graham was shot at close range in the apartment’s bathroom after he had been chased into the house by narcotics detectives. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly initially said Graham "appeared to be armed," but no weapon was recovered. Kelly also said a bag of marijuana was found in the home. At the rally, protesters condemned the police treatment of black youth.

Protester: "From the stop-and-frisk policy, where Ramarley was brutally targeted, right up in his home and shot point-blank, this is not about finding criminals. This is a system, which you are complicit in, that criminalizes youth that look like me. We are not criminals."

I recommend that you click the link and watch from 12:20 to see the protestors and really feel the energy that they chanted with!
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/7/headlines

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Comment by Derwin Sherwood on February 9, 2012 at 6:11pm

Carlton Berkley: "Hopefully, the next time, right, the Commissioner will show up. If he wants to, you know, extend his condolences to the family, he can do it face to face. But he also has to apologize to the community. Alright, one young man was killed, but there are thousands who have been mistreated, who have been abused and violated, by the same police officers that took Ramarley Graham’s life and by some of the officers that brutally beat Jateik Reed."

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/9/headlines

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