{"id":30140,"date":"2020-07-19T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jay-z-other-celebs-ask-feds-to-probe-students-2010-killing\/"},"modified":"2020-07-19T01:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T22:42:00","slug":"jay-z-other-celebs-ask-feds-to-probe-students-2010-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jay-z-other-celebs-ask-feds-to-probe-students-2010-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jay-Z, other celebs ask feds to probe student\u2019s 2010 killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Jay-Z, other celebs ask feds to probe student\u2019s 2010 killing<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Rihanna, Jay-Z, Charlize Theron and other celebrities are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the death of 20-year-old Danroy \u201cDJ\u201d Henry Jr., a Black football player at Pace University killed by a white police officer in New York nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n

In a letter sent this week to Attorney General<\/a> William Barr, the entertainers say Henry, who was from Easton, Massachusetts, \u201clost his life for no good reason and with absolutely no good explanation.\u201d The case remains an \u201cunhealed wound\u201d for Henry\u2019s family and the people of New York, they wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DOJ must truthfully determine whether a pattern and\/or practice of discrimination played a role in the case of DJ Henry \u2014 and if it did \u2014 deliver the justice that restores this young man\u2019s name and reputation, while giving hope to other young black men who are just like him and desperate for change,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

Others who signed the letter are Pharrell Williams, Taraji P. Henson, Odell Beckham Jr., Michael K. Williams, Kerry Washington, Mary J. Blige and Gabrielle Union.<\/p>\n

An email seeking comment was sent Friday to DOJ spokespeople.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York announced in 2015 that they would not bring civil rights charges, saying a thorough review of evidence did not show that Pleasantville officer Aaron Hess acted with deliberate and specific intent to break the law. The officer was previously cleared by a grand jury.<\/p>\n

Hess shot Henry as Henry drove through a parking lot, away from a disturbance that spilled out of a bar in October 2010 in Mount Pleasant, a New York City suburb.<\/p>\n

Hess has said Henry was trying to run him down and that he fired through the windshield to stop the driver.<\/p>\n

The Henrys have said Hess jumped front of the car, got onto the hood and shot their son for no good reason. Another officer, Ronald Beckley, shot at Hess, later saying he did so because he believed Hess was \u201cthe aggressor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Henry\u2019s car struck the officer and injured him before Hess fired his weapon as he made \u201ca split decision under conditions of extreme danger, conditions under which the law generally allows latitude to a police officer\u2019s judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mourners hold balloons and a photo of Danroy Henry Jr.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Henrys reached a $6 million settlement with the town and the officer.<\/p>\n

The celebrities said the facts of the case \u201creek of local conflict of interest, racial bias and even false testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice, it app<\/a>ears, has been denied,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

Henry\u2019s father said new information that has come out since the criminal case was closed warrants a reexamination of his son\u2019s death. He pointed to multiple witnesses who contradicted the police department\u2019s initial account of what happened, including Beckley.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that anyone who can reopen this will reopen it,\u201d Danroy Henry Sr. told The Associated Press on Friday. \u201cAll we\u2019re asking for is what we asked for from the very beginning \u2014 it\u2019s just a fair review of the real evidence, not sort of a fake presentation of a false narrative, which is all that we believe happened so far here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The elder Henry said officials should reopen the case and shouldn\u2019t wait for calls for the family or others to take action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s sort of the old moment,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a new moment that\u2019s emerged that requires them to be better. That\u2019s why people are in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jay-Z has also called for justice in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot and killed as he ran through a Georgia neighborhood. The social<\/a> justice arm of Jay-Z\u2019s Roc Nation entertainment company in May called on the state\u2019s attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to help achieve a fair trial.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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