Protesters demand answers about Police Shooting Death of Curtis Good
Thursday, August 26, 2004 at 10:28PM
TheSpook
"The way they said it
happened, there's no excuse for it. They could have shot him in the
leg. The police brutality has to stop."
Peace and justice were the themes of a march in the city
last night by family and friends of Curtis Good, the city resident shot
and killed by police Friday morning. More than 200 people gathered at
the front door of 290A King St., where 41-year-old Good lived with his
girlfriend, Nicole Larmonie, who is eight months pregnant. People of
all ages and races hugged, cried and expressed their frustration about
the lack of information police have given so far. Police were called to
Good's residence at 1:30 a.m. Friday on a report that Good was tearing
up the apartment. Officers Carmen Fazzolari and David Sanchez
responded. While Sanchez spoke with Larmonie's 18-year-old son, who had
called police, Fazzolari went inside to speak with Good. Two minutes
later, the officer fired eight shots, six of which hit Good. He died
less than an hour later at Raritan Bay Medical Center in Perth Amboy. "I
don't know what state of mind my brother was in, but I know he had a
lot of respect for police," said another of Good's brothers, Leon
Bradford of Detroit. "You can't make me believe he tried to do
something physical to that officer. He was tearing up his own stuff.
They could have treated it as a hostage situation and talked him out or
waited him out." [more ]
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