On a Sunday afternoon this past summer, a little boy who recently lost a baby tooth stood amid a throng of angry protesters marching their way from a house on East 229th Street through quiet residential streets in the Bronx to the 47th Precinct, where police brass waited behind a metal enclosure.
The little boy held a bright red sign, difficult to make out since he was so small, and the crowd obscured the message written with thick black marker. As the crowd parted, the message became clear: “N.Y.P.D Don’t Kill Me!!!” To stress the point, someone had underlined the message three times.
The little boy was one of a clutch of 50 protesters led by Constance Malcolm, whose son Ra Graham died after he was chased to his second-floor bathroom and fatally shot. The police officer who killed Graham, Richard Haste, never had a day in court. After the case wallowed in legal limbo for years, the Manhattan U.S Attorney’s office announced on Sept. 17 it was opening a civil rights investigation into the killing.
[For more of this story, written by Daryl Khan, go to http://jjie.org/when-kids-are-...ed-by-police/107949/]
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