A day after a Boston police officer was charged with manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of 39-year-old Stephenson King, organizers with the Roxbury-based Black Community Information Center on Friday called for the release of police body camera footage.
The race of the victim was not brought up in court Thursday, and the district attorney’s office declined to comment on whether King is a person of color. However, GBH News has obtained court documents identifying him as Black, adding another complex layer of race to the case.
“There’s a whole other aspect to this that’s not being covered in the fact that we’re talking about a Black man who was apparently assassinated by a white police officer who made the decision that he was going to take this person out,” said Sadiki Kambon, the director of the Black Community Information Center, describing the group’s decision to hold a press conference despite the officer allegedly responsible being charged with a crime. “It looks like this Stephenson, he’s our George Floyd here in Boston and that racial aspect of this shooting is being ignored totally.”…