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Needless Victims
June 12, 2012

Ramarley Graham | Age 18 | New York City , NY | February 2012

Moirai 

On February 2, 2012 18 year old Ramarley Graham was killed by the NYPD in his own apartment with his grandmother and 6-year-old brother present. NYPD chased the teenager over a small bag of marijuana and busted into his house without a warrant.

Surveillance footage from the NYPD’s chase showed Ramarley walking into the building, then cops running up to the door and trying to kick it down. Eventually, they entered the apartment, ran upstairs and found Graham. One of them fatally shot him once in the chest.  Richard Haste is the alleged police shooter.

Richard Haste is expected to turn himself in on Wednesday, June 13th to face charges. He faces 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter charges after a grand jury indicted him and he could receive up to 25 years in prison. He’s been on desk duty since the shooting in Februrary. How nice that he’s still collecting a paycheck.

The NYPD’s great defense? That Haste’s unit didn’t receive proper training. Haste has been with the NYPD for 4 years, so please spare us this weak defense. He acted precisely with the ‘training’ all too many NYPD display toward their city’s minorities.

NYC, the marijuana arrest capital of the US, again sees its NYPD defy orders to curtail these arrests, which are decriminalized under NY State law. Even though whites use marijuana more than minorities, 85% of NYPD marijuana arrests target minorities. Lets sincerely hope Cuomo, Bloomberg, and Kelly are serious about using marijuana for stop and frisks, aka racial profiling.  People need to see the pictures of the lives being destroyed daily by insane government policies!

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  • dylan

    As someone who has sat for grand jury duty in NYC, listening to the “sting” cases that are brought against minorities, I can say it is a very sad state that we are in.  It’s far to easy to execute a drug bust in NYC and ruin someone’s life for seeking out mind altering states (as we are biologically programmed to do, have you ever seen a child spinning in circles?).  Why do we bother spending resources on marijuana enforcement?  When was the last time that someone smoking marijuana was violent?  Common sense folks!  

    I hope that Richard Haste rots in jail and is fully prosecuted for his hate crimes.  Don’t get me wrong, I think the NYPD does the best it can, but we give way too much power to people that are not up to the standard to serve.  Bloomberg, time for you to step in and step up, this is not acceptable from the people that pay your taxes.  Obama, how do you feel about your drug policies now?  

    • Carioca

      Dylan it is truly a tragedy that so much power is put in the hands of professinals with such poor training and  education.   it seems that a lot of thse cops when enforcing the law are making hasty decisons based on fear, absumptions and hostility rather than sane and unbiased judgement.

  • Concerned Citizen

    New York Times bas had pretty good coverage of this story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/nyregion/officer-to-face-manslaughter-charges-in-bronx-shooting.html?_r=1

  • MullenexpresS@aol.com

    $$$$$$$$ its all about that tax money it wont be much longer my friends till prohibition is over. There r to many states that have added marijuana tax dollars into their budgets n were talking millions of dollars. Those states r raking in the money and every day other states are loosing out on those millions. So it will happen soon just sucks that the states care for the money and not its people in pain but just remember YOU GET WHO U VOTE FOR sooner or later someone will get in office who will play ball for the american people

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