Richard Haste, the NYPD police officer who shot and killed Bronx teen Ramarley Graham, quit the force before he could be terminated from the post. While Haste was never charged for the fatal 2012 shooting, he was found guilty last Friday in an NYPD disciplinary hearing and resigned on Sunday.
The family of Ramarley Graham has been seeking justice since the 2012 slaying of the 18-year-old at the hands of NYPD officer, Richard Haste. Another blow was delivered to the family on Tuesday (Mar. 8) when federal prosecutors decided not to convene a grand jury against Haste in a civil rights investigation.
The shooting death of New York teenager Ramarley Graham is slated to be investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The undercurrent of racism remained part of the conversation during the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman. Although the volunteer night watchman is a multiracial man with a white father and Peruvian mother, there still existed the narrative that racial profiling was the root issue that ended Trayvon Martin‘s life.
A Bronx judge has thrown out the criminal case against an NYPD officer accused in the fatal shooting death of an 18-year-old. The manslaughter indictment was tossed due to a mistake made by the district attorney, ABC News reports.
A judge in the case against NYPD officer Richard Haste– stemming from the shooting death of a Bronx teen– might rule for a dismissal. Haste gunned down 18-year-old Ramarley Graham last year.
Richard Haste, the NYPD officer charged with manslaughter for shooting and killing 18-year-old Ramarley Graham, entered a not guilty plea during his arraignment Wednesday (June 13).
The NYPD officer who killed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham, after breaking into his house and shooting him, will surrender to authorities, Wednesday (June 12).
The shooting case of 18-year-old Ramarley Graham has taken a new turn after video was released showing NYPD officers kicking down the door of the home of Graham’s grandmother in the Wakefield section of the Bronx. The video, which Hip-Hop Wired warns is intense, shows Graham entering his home calmly last Thursday with NYPD officers […]
