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Cop Kills Unarmed 18-Year-Old In His Bathroom

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For the third time in a week, an NYPD officer has shot and killed a suspect. Yesterday an unidentified officer killed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham with a single bullet to the chest. The officer, a member of the narcotics unit, had chased Graham into his home, seen him flush something down a toilet and reportedly saw him make "furtive" movements, apparently prompting the cop to fire. Graham—who lived with his mother, grandmother and 6-year-old brother—was immediately mourned by family and neighbors. "Nobody deserves to get shot like that, in your own house," his bereaved mother, Constance Malcolm, cried to reporters.

The shooting occurred after 3 p.m. at East 229th street in the Wakefield section of the Bronx, when police approached Graham after arresting two alleged drug dealers. According to one law-enforcement source Graham had "eight prior arrests, including burglary, robbery, dealing marijuana and other offenses." Reportedly a small amount of marijuana (the NYPD's favorite drug) was found in Graham's toilet. "Everybody’s kids get into trouble. He smoked a little weed, but you know, like all the little, young kids does," his mother explained last night. "And that’s what he had on him when they were chasing him."

After being shot, Graham was rushed to Montefiore Hospital and pronounced dead. According to police spokesman Paul Browne, the 30-year-old officer who shot the young man joined the force in July 2008 and has not been involved in any prior shootings. Browne said investigators were interviewing potential witnesses and the shooting remained under investigation. Not that that will bring Constance Malcolm's son back. "In the bathroom they shot him. My 6-year-old son was there and saw everything," Malcolm told reporters. "I’m going to get justice."

It has been a bloody week for the NYPD. In the last week police officers have been involved in two other fatal shootings.

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  • Guest

    Newly released video shows the victim walking calmly down the street, with no gun and no exchange of any weapon. This cop who murdered Graham is no different than the skell who killed officer Figoski. Except that this piece of slop cop will probably get away with the murder. In addition, NYPD never trained this lowlife to work street narcotics enforcement. The NYPD really needs its ass handed to them.

  • This is disgusting... Please, please, let us end this insane, misguided "War on drugs".

  • This is disgusting... Please, please, let us end this insane, misguided "War on drugs".

  • YourBFF

    Headline: "Pot can be a fatal drug"

  • Ragingsemi

    You know what the worst part is?...I'll bet they made the mother clean up the kids blood in her bathroom.

  • tyrone321


    JUST
    ANOTHER BLACK UNARMED TEEN POLICE ARE UNDER INVESTIGATION AND BLACK
    WILL MARCH

    Here
    we go again! Another unarmed black male shot by cops and another
    investigation of cops by cops! Let see the investigation will result
    in a justify murder of a unarmed black teen. Officers will be back to
    work and black American after marching after crying after getting
    angry after chanting "no justice no peace"! Will have "no
    justice no peace" and will wait for the next police shooting the
    next investigation the next justify shooting of the next black
    unarmed American citizen. It has become routine so routine that any
    American can tell you what will happen after a unarmed black person
    is shot by cops in America.

    Not
    a oversea terrorist not a airplane flying into black American home by
    terrorist. No No No black American live in a country where all black
    people are seen as a threat to police! All blacks from age 2 to 92
    are seen as criminals! In New York there is a Stop & Frisk"
    policy which really should be name Stop & Frisk black people
    policy! Children as young as 5 years old are stopped and search going
    and coming from school! Young men are made to drop their trousers and
    take off their shoes in full view of the public! In the movie
    “Waiting for Superman” there was no mention of how it feels.
    Demean and belittle before you get to school but still expected to be
    happy to learn.

    For
    the third time in a week, an NYPD officer has shot and killed a a
    black citizen. An unidentified officer killed 18-year-old Ramarley
    Graham with a
    single bullet to the chest.
    The officer, a member of the narcotics unit, had chased Graham into
    his home, claim to have seen him flush something down a toilet and
    reportedly saw him make "furtive" movements, apparently
    prompting the cop to fire. Graham—who lived with his mother,
    grandmother and 6-year-old brother—was immediately mourned
    by family and neighbors. "Nobody
    deserves to get shot like that, in your own house,"
    his bereaved mother, Constance Malcolm, cried to reporters.

    Constance
    Malcolm will join the club of black parent that will have no justice
    and no peace. She will make her call to Rev. Al Sharpton and maybe a
    block leader. Then there will be a news conference and the family
    will cried out for justice! Then the marching then the chanting"no
    justice no peace"! Then the police commissioner will report that
    the shooting was justify and the Mayor will state that he is behind
    his officers! THAT IS IT!

    What
    to me is so disgusting is the fact that even in your home you are not
    protected. As a parent you can do nothing to protect your children
    from a cop that has a gun and aiming it at your child! You can't
    shoot the cop because you and your child will both be murdered by
    cops! While blacks are fighting and dying in other country for their
    country. In America cops are shooting unarmed blacks in record
    numbers. All cops have to say to justify murdering a black person is
    ITHOUGHT HE OR SHE HAD A GUN or SOMEBODY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO GET
    A GUN!

    After
    being shot, Graham was rushed to Montefiore Hospital and pronounced
    dead. According to police spokesman Paul Browne, the 30-year-old
    officer who shot the young man joined the force in July 2008 and has
    not been involved in any prior shootings. Browne said investigators
    were interviewing potential witnesses and the shooting remained under
    investigation. Not that that will bring Constance Malcolm's son back.
    "In the bathroom they shot him. My 6-year-old son was there and
    saw everything," Malcolm told reporters. "I’m
    going to get justice."

    I'm
    sorry to inform America THERE WILL BE NO JUSTICE! Again oversea
    terrorist ARE NOT black American biggest threat!

  • BoogieDown

    Reminds me of the quotes made by Muhammad Ali during the Vietnam War:

    ""I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong... No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."

    "No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder, kill, and burn other
    people to simply help continue the domination of white slavemasters over
    dark people the world over. This is the day and age when such evil
    injustice must come to an end."

    "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles
    from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while
    so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied
    simple human rights?"

  • MarkSimeone

    "eight prior arrests, including burglary, robbery, dealing marijuana and other offenses."  I'd say let's all raise our hands like goal post in the air and yell...hooray!

  • YourBFF

    you are an evil person

  • Don't forget the NYPD's revelations that Ray Kelly was in a hate speech video, his deputy Browne lied about it, and now the department is spying on innocent Shiites in NY and beyond. It's been a rough week even without the killings.

  • While looking at this site, and others that deal with this and similar incidents,( granted this does occur often, all you have to do is read the papers everyday to satisfy your self on that point ) It came to me like a bolt from the blue, ALL of you who are critical of the NYPD, who are disatisfied, who always criticize, especialy those who always love to call cops scared white boys, go and take the test, study, get a passing score and become a New York police officer, after all you will be more able to do the job better and more professional, right, RIGHT.

  • BoogieDown

    Um, lots of us have graduate degrees.  I'm pretty sure we can pass a test that's been completed by thousands of people who can't properly string words together to form a comprehensible sentence.

    If you're a cop, you just proved my point.  Your writing skills are laughably terrible.

  • NYC247

    It takes much more than a gradute degree and passing the written exam. Candidates must then pass a medical exam, written phychological exam, oral phychological exam, physical exam, drug exam, and a background investigation to be appointed into the academy. Then six month's of training to be sworn in as a police officer. I'll bet you will failed miserably in more than one of these phases.

  • BoogieDown

    "I'll bet you will failed miserably in more than one of these phases"

    Bwa-hahahaha!  Yeah, right.  You pigs seem so psychologically stable.  It must be really hard to fool the idiots conducting the exam (*eye roll*).  As for the physical exam, most of you pigs look just like that, pigs.  Most of you can barely waddle down the sidewalk faster than an octogenarian.  Ooooh, and six whole months.  Don't make me laugh.  Try ten years of REAL education, dipshit.

    Like I said above, I would never want to join a disgraceful and disgusting institution like the NYPD.  I have standards

  • Ten years of education, would that be up to the 10th grade ? Do you mean ten years of Universty education right ? AHH the perpetual student ! you sound like the typical university educated liberal moron, that makes this country SOO great.

    You know, I hope jacked one day really bad,  jacked by a homie or an amigo, and then as your laying there dying, you can get help from a passerby, BUT REMEMBER, tell that person NOT under any circumstance are they to call 911, after all it will be the PIGS who'll be showing up, tell him to call the ACLU, or Marvin at NYU LAW, and let them go look for the perptrators.

  • BoogieDown

    "typical university educated liberal moron, that makes this country SOO great."

    Hoo needz edukashun, rite?  We shud all b stoopid and ignernt lik u.  Stoopid pipl mak thiz kuntry grate!!!111!!!

  • NYC247

    Wow!!! Ten years of "real education," and you're still a close-minded person that generalizes an entire institution. I am sure that in your line of profession (whatever that may be) there are assholes and stupid people. Hope for your sake, people don't genaralized you all.

  • BoogieDown

    Sure there are bad people in my profession (though few are stupid).  Plagiarism is the big one to avoid in my line of work.  Want to know the difference between people in my profession and the cops?  When someone is found guilty of plagiarism in my profession, the rest of us express our disgust with their behavior and demand they be stripped of their credentials.  Unlike the pigs, we don't blindly defend reprehensible behavior.

    I know not all cops are bad people as individuals, but the outright willingness to support the despicable ones makes me (and pretty much everyone I know) distrust them all.

  • There was nothing wrong with my writing.You understood exactly what I was saying,so having said that, go on take the test, go ahead take it, and after you graduate, dont be a piker, pick the toughest precinct in the city as your first duty assignment.

  • BoogieDown

    "There was nothing wrong with my writing."

    This is why you PIGS get no respect.  You have no idea who you're dealing with, yet assume you're intellectually superior to us all, despite obvious evidence to the contrary.  My second language is English, yet my communication skills were far superior to your drivel by the time I was in middle school.  You should be ashamed of how stupid and poorly educated you are.

    I would never, ever want to join a disgraceful and disgusting institution like the NYPD.  I have standards, unlike you.

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