Join Hawa Bah, mother of Mohamed Bah, for a rally and vigil to demand the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate the NYPD killing of her son Mohamed Bah. CCR recently signed on to a letter along with over 100 other faith and civil rights groups that was sent to the DOJ on January 12, demanding that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara launch an investigation into the killing of Mohamed Bah. A portion of that letter is excerpted below.

"Mohamed Bah was a 28-year-old Muslim immigrant from Guinea. On September 25, 2012, Hawa Bah called 911 to request an ambulance for her son who was showing signs of depression and needed medical attention. NYPD Emergency Services Unit officers arrived on the scene prior to any medical personnel. The responding officers violated Mohamed’s civil rights, the laws governing the use of deadly physical force, and NYPD protocol, needlessly causing Mohamed’s death. When NYPD Emergency Services Unit officers arrived at Mohamed’s apartment, Mrs. Bah informed the officers that Mohamed posed no immediate danger and requested to speak with her son, who was intimidated by the officers. The officers refused to de-escalate the situation by allowing Mrs. Bah to speak to her sick son. Despite there being no immediate threat to life, officers failed to follow the “isolate and contain” policy of the NYPD and also broke protocol by failing to await the arrival of a Duty Captain before forcibly entering Mohamed’s apartment. At that point, officers shot Mohamed eight times. They claim he had a knife and that he stabbed an officer, but a knife has never been produced as evidence and no officer was treated for knife wounds. While aforementioned facts are concerning, what is most problematic is the fact that even after Mohamed was laying on the ground and could not have possibly posed any threat to the three officers who were present, one of the officers fired the last, fatal shot to Mr. Bah’s head.

"A little over a year after the incident, a Manhattan grand jury failed to indict the officers responsible for killing Mohamed Bah. The case has been in the hands of the Department of Justice ever since."

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