More than 200 people rallied in New York City on Wednesday to protest the police killing of 18-year-old Ramarley Graham. Graham was shot at close range in his parents’ apartment in the Bronx after being chased into the house by narcotics detectives. He was unarmed. Carlton Berkley, a retired NYPD detective, criticized Police Commissioner Ray Kelly for skipping a meeting with community members. Berkley says the community was further angered that Kelly did not attend the meeting and address community residents directly.

Carlton Berkley: “Hopefully, the next time, right, the Commissioner will show up. If he wants to, you know, extend his condolences to the family, he can do it face to face. But he also has to apologize to the community. Alright, one young man was killed, but there are thousands who have been mistreated, who have been abused and violated, by the same police officers that took Ramarley Graham’s life and by some of the officers that brutally beat Jateik Reed.”