"Police say shooting of teenager justified"
NEW YORK - The New York Police Department says the officers who fired 20 shots at 18-year-old Khiel Coppin on Nov. 12 were justified in their use of force. The mentally ill teenager approached officers outside his mother's home with a black object in his hand - a hairbrush - and ignored orders to stop. The officers were responding to a 911 call in which Coppin could be heard in the background saying he had a gun. But in a second 911 call Coppin's mother told the operator her son wasn't armed, and after officers arrived she repeated that to them (AP November 19, 2007)."
Also see (warning: harsh language -- deserved, in this case):
Police State Murders N.Y. City Teen
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