Stolen Lives group mourns victims of police shootings at Pratt University
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/06/28/2009-06-28_victims_of_cops_guns_mourned.html
They walked down the aisle one by one, the pain of losing a loved one to a cop’s bullet still etched on their faces.
In a somber ceremony at Brooklyn’s Pratt University on Saturday, relatives of a dozen young men gunned down by city cops received certificates from a group called Stolen Lives, an organization that compiles stories of those killed by law enforcement.
All of the victims will be included in the publication of the next edition of the Stolen Lives book.
“I feel so much better that I have someone supporting me,” said Joann Mickens, whose son, Corey, 25, was shot by NYPD officers in Harlem in 2007. “It’s letting the people know. He wasn’t a bad son. He was bettering himself.”
Carolyn Battle, 58, said she’s still consumed by rage following the death of her son, Ronald, 25.
Ronald Battle was gunned by a cop in Harlem in September 2007, she said.
“I’m angry because the people I thought were on my side are not,” Battle said. “I cried about my baby, but this is not the time to cry. The only way we will get something done is if we will keep talking about it.”
“It all begins and ends with us. If I drop the ball just because I receive a certificate, then what? It’s about what I’m going to do with it.”
Nicholas Heyward Sr., a member of Stolen Lives, said Officer Omar Edwards, who was killed by a fellow cop last month in a case of mistaken identity, will also be included in the book’s next edition.
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