Demonstrators from the Mass. Action Against Police Brutality rally march along Seaver Street in Boston on Tuesday night. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Several hundred people gathered in Franklin Park to mark the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd and to call for local officials to do more to combat police brutality.
Since Floyd s death last year, his killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, was found guilty of murder. Across the country, government officials, businesses and schools have promised reforms to fight racism, increase equity and hold perpetrators of racial violence accountable.
Locally, that s meant a host of police reforms, including a new statewide commission to oversee policing. Boston now has an office charged with investigating police misconduct.
On Anniversary Of George Floydâs Death, Families Of Men Killed By Boston Police Demand Cases Be Reopened
Hope Coleman, 65, the mother of Terrence Coleman, and Carla Sheffield, 56, the mother of Burrell Ramsey-White, at a rally at Franklin Park in Roxbury, Tuesday. May 25, 2021
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The families of five young men who died following altercations with Boston Police â Usaama Rahim, Terrence Coleman, Burrell Ramsey-White, Ross Batista and Juston Root â gathered at Franklin Park in Roxbury Tuesday to demand that the deaths be investigated, and that the cases be reopened.
At a rally organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality on the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, Ramsey-Whiteâs mother, Carla Sheffield, asked a crowd of around 100 people to help reopen the case involving her son, who was shot and killed by Boston Police following a traffic stop in 2012.