On Saturday, demonstrators gathered at a candlelight vigil on a street corner in the borough and then marched to a police station in an ongoing protest over the death of Kimani Gray, the 16-year-old boy who was fatally shot by police officers over a week earlier.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of police officers filled the streets surrounding Saturday’s evening demonstration.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I biked over here from East 16th Street, I counted at least one police car per block — 40 police cars,\u201d said Lisa Knaue, a protester at the demonstration.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if it means they\u2019re afraid of the community. It certainly makes me feel criminalized.\u201d<\/p>\n
On March 9, two New York City officers in plain clothes shot Gray to death in Brooklyn\u2019 s East Flatbush neighborhood, claiming they took the action after the teen brandished a gun and pointed it at them.<\/p>\n
The family denies the police accusation, saying Gray was unarmed.<\/p>\n
Devonte Brown, Gray\u2019s friend, who was with him on the night of the shooting, told reporters after the incident that Gary \u201cwas screaming, \u2018Stop! I\u2019m not running,\u201d while the officers opened fire on him.<\/p>\n
A post-mortem examination found that Kimani had been hit seven times by the police officers’ bullets, three of them in the back but the report did not detail the order in which the bullets hit. <\/p>\n