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500 Protest NYPD Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Teenager

HeadlineFeb 07, 2012

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.

Jamel Mims, Stop Mass Incarceration Network: “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.” 

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