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all these blacks keep getting shot & killed by police...
i guess it's always their own fault & racism is dead (if you believe some posters awn yah)
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ASTON, Mass., -- Calling for justice, crying for their friend, hundreds of relatives and friends gathered in Easton Monday night to remember a Pace University junior who was shot and killed by police outside a bar brawl early Sunday.
New York state police and crime scene investigators are now looking into the shooting of Danroy "D.J." Henry Jr., the 20-year-old football player from Easton, Mass., who witnesses said was just trying to move his car out of a fire lane when officers fired at him in Pleasantville, N.Y.
"I just wanted to be like him. From everything he did, we all know who he was. He is not who they're going to try to make him out to be. He is not. Not this family," said his younger brother Kyle Henry, weeping as friends and members of Henry's Oliver Ames High School football team crowded close around him at the evening vigil.
"I was there with him that night. I was right there in the passenger seat with him, and I saw him taken from us," said Brandon Cox, Henry's best friend who was in the front seat of the car. A bullet grazed Cox in the arm. He said he was lucky to make it out.
"Anytime I needed anything he was there for me. I'm just sorry there wasn't more I could do, in the end," Cox said. "I am heartbroken and we won't rest until we get justice for D.J."
On the Pace University campus, fellow teammates and classmates were also mourning, calling Henry an inspirational player. His football coach called the shooting tragic.
"He was a quiet guy on the field. Probably the best athlete on our team. And that's how he led. He led by what he did on the field and he is truly missed. And I can't speak highly enough about him as a person," said coach Chris Dapolito.
The Mt. Pleasant police chief called the shooting "horrendous" but would not comment on the family's accusations. The officers said Henry accelerated after they tapped on his window, plowing into them.
"Officer (Aaron) Hess ended up on the hood of the vehicle as it accelerated in the fire lane. At some point in time, Officer Hess drew his pistol and fired into the vehicle," Mount Pleasant police Chief Louis Alagno said.
"There was no need for any of that to happen, and I do feel that we were victimized, " Cox said.
Cox's father, Thomas Parks, said Henry and Cox were not involved in the disturbance at the Finnegan's Grill restaurant in the Westchester County strip mall to which the police originally responded.
"We hope that justice will prevail. You've heard accounts about a brawl in a bar. They had nothing to do with that," said Cox's father.
i guess it's always their own fault & racism is dead (if you believe some posters awn yah)
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ASTON, Mass., -- Calling for justice, crying for their friend, hundreds of relatives and friends gathered in Easton Monday night to remember a Pace University junior who was shot and killed by police outside a bar brawl early Sunday.
New York state police and crime scene investigators are now looking into the shooting of Danroy "D.J." Henry Jr., the 20-year-old football player from Easton, Mass., who witnesses said was just trying to move his car out of a fire lane when officers fired at him in Pleasantville, N.Y.
"I just wanted to be like him. From everything he did, we all know who he was. He is not who they're going to try to make him out to be. He is not. Not this family," said his younger brother Kyle Henry, weeping as friends and members of Henry's Oliver Ames High School football team crowded close around him at the evening vigil.
"I was there with him that night. I was right there in the passenger seat with him, and I saw him taken from us," said Brandon Cox, Henry's best friend who was in the front seat of the car. A bullet grazed Cox in the arm. He said he was lucky to make it out.
"Anytime I needed anything he was there for me. I'm just sorry there wasn't more I could do, in the end," Cox said. "I am heartbroken and we won't rest until we get justice for D.J."
On the Pace University campus, fellow teammates and classmates were also mourning, calling Henry an inspirational player. His football coach called the shooting tragic.
"He was a quiet guy on the field. Probably the best athlete on our team. And that's how he led. He led by what he did on the field and he is truly missed. And I can't speak highly enough about him as a person," said coach Chris Dapolito.
The Mt. Pleasant police chief called the shooting "horrendous" but would not comment on the family's accusations. The officers said Henry accelerated after they tapped on his window, plowing into them.
"Officer (Aaron) Hess ended up on the hood of the vehicle as it accelerated in the fire lane. At some point in time, Officer Hess drew his pistol and fired into the vehicle," Mount Pleasant police Chief Louis Alagno said.
"There was no need for any of that to happen, and I do feel that we were victimized, " Cox said.
Cox's father, Thomas Parks, said Henry and Cox were not involved in the disturbance at the Finnegan's Grill restaurant in the Westchester County strip mall to which the police originally responded.
"We hope that justice will prevail. You've heard accounts about a brawl in a bar. They had nothing to do with that," said Cox's father.
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