Kin, community demand accountability for fatal NY police shooting of 13-year-old boy

Relatives of a 13-year-old lad who was changeable and killed by constabulary successful cardinal New York were demanding justness arsenic members of their migrant assemblage from Myanmar aimed Sunday to property section officials for accountability.

The authorities lawyer wide was investigating the shooting of Nyah Mway, whom Utica constabulary tackled to the crushed and past changeable aft a ft pursuit Friday.

Police, who are conducting their ain probe, released assemblage camera video that showed a younker appearing to purpose an entity astatine them earlier they took him to the ground. The entity was a BB weapon that looked similar an existent firearm, constabulary said.

While the authoritative investigations proceeded, Nyah Mway's household and outraged assemblage members demanded accountability for the decease of the teen, who was calved successful Myanmar and is simply a subordinate of its Karen taste minority.

Utica residents of Karen descent planned to conscionable Sunday day with Utica Mayor Michael P. Galime, said Daniel Cribb, who works with a Karen assemblage group. A connection seeking remark was sent to the mayor's office.

At a vigil Saturday night, Nyah Mway's brother, Lah, said done an interpreter that helium wouldn't beryllium satisfied until the officers "are enactment successful jail,” Syracuse.com reported.

Others astatine the vigil questioned officials' relationship of the shooting.

“None of it adds up,” said Kay Klo, 1 of those astatine the gathering.

According to police, Nyah Mway and different 13-year-old lad were stopped Friday nighttime due to the fact that they acceptable descriptions of suspects successful an equipped robbery that had happened Thursday successful the aforesaid area. One was besides walking successful the road, a usurpation of authorities postulation law.

The assemblage camera video shows an serviceman saying helium needs to pat them down for immoderate weapons. Then 1 of the teens — identified arsenic Nyah Mway — runs away, turns and appears to constituent a achromatic point astatine them.

The officers believed it was a handgun, constabulary said, but it was aboriginal determined to beryllium a BB oregon pellet weapon that intimately resembled a Glock 17 Gen 5 handgun with a detachable magazine. Police released an representation showing the instrumentality did not person an orangish set connected the tube that galore BB gun-makers person added successful caller years to separate their products from firearms.

Officer Bryce Patterson caught up with Nyah Mway, tackled and punched him, and arsenic the 2 wrestled connected the ground, Officer Patrick Husnay opened fire, assemblage camera video showed. Utica Police Chief Mark Williams said astatine a quality league Saturday that the azygous changeable deed the younker successful the chest.

A bystander video posted to Facebook besides showed an serviceman tackling the teen and punching him arsenic 2 different officers arrive, past a gunshot ringing retired arsenic the teen was connected the ground.

Husnay, Patterson and Officer Andrew Citriniti were placed connected paid administrative permission arsenic the investigations spell forward.

Under New York law, the lawyer general's bureau looks into each decease astatine the hands of instrumentality enforcement. The Utica Police Department's probe, meanwhile, volition research whether officers followed policies and training.

The constabulary main called the shooting “a tragic and traumatic incidental for each involved.”

Utica's colonisation of 65,000 includes much than 4,200 radical from Myanmar, according to The Center, a nonprofit radical that helps to resettle refugees.

Karens are among groups warring with the subject rulers of Myanmar, the Southeast Asian state formerly known arsenic Burma. The service ousted the elected authorities of Aung San Suu Kyi successful 2021 and suppressed wide nonviolent protests that sought a instrumentality to antiauthoritarian rule.

Nyah Mway and his household came to the United States 9 years ago, according to speakers astatine the vigil.

“This state is expected to beryllium a state of freedom, a state of peace,” said 1 speaker, Yadana Oo. “What’s going on? Did we tally from 1 persecutor to another?”