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November 2, 2015

Florida: Corey Jones Laid to Rest Amid Questions over Killing by Cop 
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Hundreds of people gathered in West Palm Beach, Florida, Saturday at the
funeral for Corey Jones, a popular African-American drummer shot dead by
a Palm Beach Gardens police officer last month. Jones' vehicle had
broken down by the side of the road when Officer Nouman Raja approached
him in plainclothes, without a badge, in an unmarked van. Corey Jones
had a gun, which he did not fire, and a concealed carry permit which
legally entitled him to have the gun. Jones' uncle Steven Banks
remembered his nephew.

Steven Banks: "My dream is, glory, that we're going to go to Washington.
We're going to Washington. Not until a bill is passed that's going to
stop this brutality. That's my dream. I won't let it go until they swipe
the pen and change is made. Come on, y'all. This ain't no game. Corey's
dead."

 

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