Kimani Gray's mother Carol at vigil for her son, Easter 3.31
Channel: OccupyTVNY
Date: 2013-04-01

March 31, 2013. Brooklyn, NY: Carol Gray, mother of police-slain teen Kimani Gray, speaks at the community vigil on Easter Sunday. She speaks frankly of her pain, anger, guilt and unwillingness to experience comfort. She is twice bereaved; Kimani's older brother Jamar died in a car accident two years ago. Kimani was an ambitious student who shared Jamar's dream of building homes for the poor and elderly.

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. 

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