Clergy seeks NYPD names in Bronx shooting
A group of clergy, including civil rights activist Al Sharpton, demanded Monday that the police department reveal the names of the officers who broke into a Bronx home and killed an unarmed man during a drug investigation.
Youths in the black community "are being killed by the people who are supposed to protect them," the Rev. Herbert Daughtry said.
"A young man in his own home is blown away in the bathroom."
He and other leaders held a news conference in front of the Bronx district attorney's office to seek what Sharpton called "a public exposure of the process" -- the investigation into the shooting.
They were joined by the dead man's father and grandmother.
Ramarley Graham, 18, was fatally shot on Feb. 2 in the apartment he shared with his mother and grandmother, during a police drug probe of their largely Caribbean neighborhood of Williamsbridge in the Bronx.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has ordered a review of the street narcotics division following the shooting. Sharpton also demanded a federal probe.
District Attorney Robert Johnson's office was closed Monday in observance of President's Day, and he and his staff could not be reached for comment.
Police said they believed Graham had a gun because when they encountered him on the street, he was adjusting his waistband.
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