The Fight for Justice is a Fight Against the NYPD

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By Natasha Lennard

More than two years after unarmed Bronx teen Ramarley Graham was executed by NYPD officer Richard Haste in his grandmother's bathroom, the killer remains a free man (two indictments against him were thrown out.) The Department of Justice has yet to follow through with a promised investigation into the killing.

Graham's mother, Constance Malcolm, has waited in vein for some modicum of justice for her son's death for over two years. She had to watch as fellow cops cheered for her son's killer as he pled innocent to manslaughter charges in court, after shooting an unarmed teen in front of his family. At the time she said, "That’s how they work, you see it everyday."

Then, while Malcolm waited for justice that would not come, cops killed Brooklyn teen Kimani Gray (also allegedly unarmed, according to witnesses) and they choked Eric Garner to death for allegedly selling loose cigarettes on the sidewalk. They allegedly stomped on a detained man's head and choked a pregnant woman. The same day an NYPD officer received honors on Medal Day, the same cop allgedly broke in to a Bronx woman's home and assaulted her.

Surveying the two years since her son's death, Malcolm understandably carries a nagging resignation. She told the Huffington Post, "I don't think it's going to be okay, because it keeps happening."

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