A 19-year-old man, Thuong Oo, stood in the middle of the group, shouting into a megaphone.
The police had killed Mr. Oo’s 13-year-old brother, Nyah Mway, two days earlier and he was angry.
Late on June 28, an officer shot Nyah after the boy had been seen with what turned out to be a pellet gun and was tackled to the ground.
“I went to the hospital and they said they had a shootout with my brother,” Mr. Oo told the crowd.
“But I watched the video and it said different things, so it doesn’t make any sense.”Many of those encircling Mr. Oo were members of the Karen, a refugee ethnic group from Myanmar, and almost all them were young.
Persons:
Oo’s, Nyah Mway, Nyah, “, ” Mr, Oo, Karen, ”
Locations:
Hall, Utica, N.Y, Myanmar