Bronx Narc Kills Unarmed Teen while Flushing Marijuana Down Toilet

NEW YORK, NY — A NYPD narcotics officer shot and killed a Bronx 18-year-old Thursday as the teen was allegedly trying to flush drugs down a toilet in his own home. Ramarley Graham becomes the eighth person to die in US drug law enforcement operations so far this year, and it appears to have been over a small amount of marijuana.

18 year old Ramarley Graham was gunned down in his Bronx home by NYPD on Thursday while he was allegedly flushing a small amount of marijuana down the toilet.

Police told the Wall Street Journal the narcs had already arrested two other men they watched allegedly selling drugs Thursday afternoon when they approached Graham. He ran to his home nearby, followed by police, and into a second-floor bathroom, where he was possibly trying to flush drugs, police said.

When an unidentified officer confronted him in the bathroom, Graham spun around, and, according to police, there was a struggle, and the officer then shot him in the chest. It wasn’t clear what caused the officer to fire. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

An earlier report from PIX-11 TV, however, had police telling local media Graham “made a motion near his waist leading them to believe he was armed” when he was still on the street. He wasn’t, police have conceded.

Police were quick to tell local media about Graham’s arrest record, which included busts for burglary, robbery, dealing marijuana, and other offenses. But they didn’t say how those cases had been resolved or whether they were even aware of his identity when they shot him.

After the shooting, PIX-11 TV reported that “Graham’s parents were at the White Plains Rd. intersection visibly agitated and a crowd of approximately 80 people were openly hostile towards police, berating officers lined up along the crime scene tape.”

Graham’s mother, Constance Malcolm, 39, told the Wall Street Journal, a neighbor had called her at work to tell her her son had been killed. Malcolm said her mother and her six-year-old son were also in the apartment during the shooting.

“The cops told me they were chasing him. He had weed, and that’s it,” Ms. Malcolm said. “Nobody deserves to be shot like that in their own house.”

Added by Phillip Smith on February 3, 2012.
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  • Hootz

    One day this will happen and the people won’t just yell at the cops they will rush them and beat them to death, it will happen it needs to happen

    • Jimbo

       Thing is marijuana is becoming awful damn popular, pretty soon it will be the majority of the American people they are abusing like this, and not just a minority. I think we have the right to protect ourselves against police brutality, I never believed in owning a gun, but perhaps one of the only reason I would feel safer with one is because I like to smoke weed, and cops might try to kill me for it, I’d rather be alive in a cell than dead in the ground.

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  • Abigpurplediamond

    Something very similar happened here in Vegas & his family was paid & very large chunk of money. Hope this boys family gets the same. Maybe after the cops have to pay out enough they will stop the crap on marijuana people.