Summary
The tears flowed unceasingly at the funeral. "No more, no more!" cried one of the [Fermin Arzu]'s nieces during her final words to her fallen uncle, who was a musician and a member of the Garifuna ethnic group who trace their ancestry from St. Vincent, where African slaves often intermarried with the indigenous Arawaks. "He didn't have to shoot him," she continued.
While the investigation proceeds, the circumstances surrounding Arzu's death remain muddled. If the police are right, Officer Raphael Lora encountered Arzu after he heard an accident and raced from his home in the Longwood section of the Bronx. When he approached the minivan Arzu was driving, according to the police, Lora identified himself as an officer, but Arzu sped off."If he was drunk, then he should have been arrested, not killed," said [Al Sharpton]. "And it's not the condition of the victim that's important; it's the state of the mind of the policeman who did the shooting."See the full content of this document
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A Dreamer Returns Home in a Casket
Fermin Arzu, an immigrant from Honduras, had come to this country looking for the American dream, but was returning to his native land in a casket.
"Rather than finding the American drea...See the full content of this document
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