Teen Brian Dowling appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court after being charged with the first-degree murder of 32-year-old social justice activist Ryan Thoresen Carson
As friends and family remember young activist Ryan Carson, they say that he 'worked tirelessly' on the structural problems in the city that cause slayings like this one and that he "would have seen his killer as a victim of the kind of broken systems he was working to fix"
Terrifying footage from Brooklyn shows the moment Ryan Carson was walking with girlfriend Tatiana Morales when he suddenly became the victim of an unprovoked attack by a stranger