Kimani Gray, Remembered One Month Later
Channel: OccupyTVNY
Date: 2013-04-14

April 9, 2013, East Flatbush, Brooklyn: One month after the police slaying of 16-year-old Kimani "Kiki" Gray, mourners gather at East 55th and Church, mostly teenagers. We hear from Kimani's mother Carol, Shanduke McPhatter of GMACC and Jose LaSalle of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network of the ongoing struggle for justice for Kimani. Police use the public but quiet drinking of alcohol as an excuse to intimidate a number of the youth from staying at the vigil site.

Kamani Gray was gunned down the night of Saturday, March 9 by two plainclothes police officers who claimed the 16-year-old boy had pointed a gun at them. Eyewitnesses said Kimani was unarmed and that the police continued to fire at him after he had fallen, and then threatened them, the witnesses in turn. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/03/kimani_gray_4.php 

The two cops had a history of brutality and falsifying evidence http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/cops-killed-kimani-gray-named-federal-lawsuits-article-1.1290342#ixzz2NfWgKBb6 , and their claim of self-defense was made all the more dubious when the coroner revealed that 3 of the 7 fatal bullets came from the rear http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/nyregion/teenager-killed-by-new-york-police-was-shot-7-times.html?_r=1&. Nonetheless, as comments on our previous uploads have made clear, many people's views of this story are colored by the initial reports in the mainstream media, that ran with the cops' version of the event, and publicized the boy's criminal record. 

To help tell the true story of Kimani Gray, including its context of police-community relations in communities like East Flatbush, Occupy TV New York is making a documentary envisioned as a narrative told by many voices, most of them residents of East Flatbush. Anyone wishing to take part in this video may contact atiqzabinski@gmail.com

We will continue to cover the events in East Flatbush and upload them to this playlist. Please bookmark and share this link: http://bit.ly/BrooklynProtest 

Shot by Raven Rakia and Atiq Zabinski, edited by Zabinski.

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