RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Community members gathered Monday night to remember a Raleigh man fatally shot by a police officer during a foot chase as he was trying to arrest him on drug charges.
In the first several hours after the shooting, local television coverage showed police forming a line in the street near the downtown neighborhood where the shooting took place as a number of people gathered behind yellow crime-scene tape that blocked off the area and began chanting “No justice, no peace!”
The chant has been used repeatedly across the nation in recent years to protest the deaths of black men following encounters with law enforcement officers.
By late afternoon, the police tape had been taken down and by evening several dozen people had gathered with candles at a makeshift memorial near where the shooting happened.
Several hundred people gathered in the evening to hear speakers address the crowd. The Rev. Chris Jones of Ship of Zion, a church in the neighborhood, said he knew the dead man and asked aloud why the officer had to kill him.