![Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly orders review after fatal shooting of unarmed teenager
Ramarley Graham, 18, was chased by Officer Richard Haste and Sgt. Scott Morris into his parents’ Williamsbridge apartment on Feb. 2 and shot dead in the bathroom.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has ordered a top-to-bottom review of all street level narcotics enforcement procedures after it was revealed that the cop who killed an unarmed Bronx teen had never been properly trained.
Officer Richard Haste, who fired the bullet that killed Ramarley Graham, had no training in street level narcotics enforcement or plainclothes cop work, a police source said.
Kelly on Wednesday called for a citywide “high level review of the Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit,” to reassess training and tactics, the source said.
Graham, 18, was chased by Haste and Sgt. Scott Morris into his parents’ Williamsbridge apartment on Feb. 2 and shot dead in the bathroom.
Both cops been taken off the street and given administrative duties.
A spokesman for the Graham family said that Kelly’s review does not go far enough.
“It’s important that the NYPD allows the Department of Justice to conduct an independent investigation,” said Vernon Williams.
At a community precinct council meeting Wednesday night, Graham’s mother called for criminal charges to be filed against the cops.
“The police [officer] is still working,” said Constance Malcolm, the teen’s mother. “They only put him on desk duty; he should have been charged. They just want to see all these black kids off the streets. Justice is going to be done for this one.”
Graham’s killing has touched a nerve with many in the community, who marched on the 47th Precinct stationhouse to protest police treatment of minority youth on Feb. 5.
An angry crowd of 500 neighbors, family members and supporters, held placards calling for the police commissioner’s resignation and chanted “NYPD, KKK, how many kids did you kill today?”
The Bronx District ttorney’s office is investigating the shooting.
This is not the first time the Graham family has clashed with police.
Last July, police raided the Harlem apartment where Graham’s father and four half brothers live looking for drugs and weapons.
About 30 cops stormed the second-floor apartment on W 131st St., dragging the young men from the building, injuring three of them.
That incident prompted a community meeting at a mosque to address the problem of police brutality.
Story Courtesy of the NY DAILY NEWS
Alive Soul Note: Last week, The New York Times published a series of photos by a police officer chronicling his experience on the beat in 3 housing projects on its website. I wrote the Times and told them they were romanticizing the over-policing of public housing and the neighborhoods surrounding them. In addition, I felt the NYPD does a poor job of fostering a constructive relationship with those who live in these areas and has instead opted for an adversarial one. Residents here in NYC are subject to invasive/illegal(?) stop and frisk searches and are watched from rooftops as if they are in living in a prison camp. It’s wrong. Police brutality and harrassment are real in NYC. To me, this story is just another example of that. I know that if a cop had been shot in this manner, it would be front page news, but the life of this 18 year old and the anger and hurt it has caused this community has been buried in the back pages of all the major newspapers here. I suppose we should be thankful that we are hearing about it at all….there are so many stories like this one that you don’t hear about and that should be a concern to ALL New Yorkers.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz4whs36kp1qgb91fo1_250.jpg)
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly orders review after fatal shooting of unarmed teenager
Ramarley Graham, 18, was chased by Officer Richard Haste and Sgt. Scott Morris into his parents’ Williamsbridge apartment on Feb. 2 and shot dead in the bathroom.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has ordered a top-to-bottom review of all street level narcotics enforcement procedures after it was revealed that the cop who killed an unarmed Bronx teen had never been properly trained.
Officer Richard Haste, who fired the bullet that killed Ramarley Graham, had no training in street level narcotics enforcement or plainclothes cop work, a police source said.
Kelly on Wednesday called for a citywide “high level review of the Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit,” to reassess training and tactics, the source said.
Graham, 18, was chased by Haste and Sgt. Scott Morris into his parents’ Williamsbridge apartment on Feb. 2 and shot dead in the bathroom.
Both cops been taken off the street and given administrative duties.
A spokesman for the Graham family said that Kelly’s review does not go far enough.
“It’s important that the NYPD allows the Department of Justice to conduct an independent investigation,” said Vernon Williams.
At a community precinct council meeting Wednesday night, Graham’s mother called for criminal charges to be filed against the cops.
“The police [officer] is still working,” said Constance Malcolm, the teen’s mother. “They only put him on desk duty; he should have been charged. They just want to see all these black kids off the streets. Justice is going to be done for this one.”
Graham’s killing has touched a nerve with many in the community, who marched on the 47th Precinct stationhouse to protest police treatment of minority youth on Feb. 5.
An angry crowd of 500 neighbors, family members and supporters, held placards calling for the police commissioner’s resignation and chanted “NYPD, KKK, how many kids did you kill today?”
The Bronx District ttorney’s office is investigating the shooting.
This is not the first time the Graham family has clashed with police.
Last July, police raided the Harlem apartment where Graham’s father and four half brothers live looking for drugs and weapons.
About 30 cops stormed the second-floor apartment on W 131st St., dragging the young men from the building, injuring three of them.
That incident prompted a community meeting at a mosque to address the problem of police brutality.
Story Courtesy of the NY DAILY NEWS
Alive Soul Note: Last week, The New York Times published a series of photos by a police officer chronicling his experience on the beat in 3 housing projects on its website. I wrote the Times and told them they were romanticizing the over-policing of public housing and the neighborhoods surrounding them. In addition, I felt the NYPD does a poor job of fostering a constructive relationship with those who live in these areas and has instead opted for an adversarial one. Residents here in NYC are subject to invasive/illegal(?) stop and frisk searches and are watched from rooftops as if they are in living in a prison camp. It’s wrong. Police brutality and harrassment are real in NYC. To me, this story is just another example of that. I know that if a cop had been shot in this manner, it would be front page news, but the life of this 18 year old and the anger and hurt it has caused this community has been buried in the back pages of all the major newspapers here. I suppose we should be thankful that we are hearing about it at all….there are so many stories like this one that you don’t hear about and that should be a concern to ALL New Yorkers.
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