13-year-old shot and killed by police in New York

According to bystander video, before police shot Nyah Mway, 13, to death they threw him to the ground and punched him. Mway was armed with a pellet gun designed to look like a Glock. abcnews.go.com/US/new-details-emerge-police-shooting-13-year-new/story?id=111584303

“As he is pinned on the ground, one officer appears to strike him...Within seconds, as two of the officers kneel over the boy, a gunshot rings out. A person can be heard in the video yelling “oh my God” and “he just shot him” as the boy lies motionless..” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/nyregion/utica-police-teen-shooting.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

I don’t live in the #usa but the land of the free saw over 1,000 people shot by#American police last year and this year is no different - what a sick society and a trigger happy police force @@NYPDnews bbc.com/news/articles/c6p2j48g304o

On Friday in Utica, police shot and killed a young boy returning home from an 8th grade graduation barbecue. 13-year-old Nyah Mway was a member of upstate New York’s Karen refugee community, a minority ethnic group from Burma. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utica-ny-community-looking-answers-teen-shot-killed-police-rcna159879