Albany demonstrators demand answers after man dies in police custody
Source: Times Union
By Robert Gavin
Albany
More than 200 angry protesters marched, rallied and hollered from the South End to City Hall on Friday evening seeking answers — and calling for justice — in the aftermath of the police Taser-related death of Donald "Dontay" Ivy in Arbor Hill.
The peaceful demonstration began outside the city police department's South Station on Arch Street, where demonstrators held signs proclaiming "Black Lives Matter" and "Disarm the Police" and chanting "no justice, no peace. "
The family of Ivy — a paranoid schizophrenic who had a heart problem — took no part in the protest. It was a scene similar to protests across the country following the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in Staten Island.
"I will have to stand here and say that this is not just an incident that takes place in one community. It takes place in communities across America," said Councilman Mark Robinson, speaking into bullhorn to start the rally.
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by blurting out he had a heart problem. You're apparently supposed to think that the cops didn't really do anything too extreme, after all, he was a little "you know" and he had a heart condition which really probably did him in, anyway.
Clowns, racists, congenital truth stretchers.
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So did the school just let him suit up and sit with the team because they
felt sorry for him, or was he really a better than most basketball player?
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