The Bronx mobilized to demand accountability for Javits Frimpong, the 15-year-old Ghanaian teen fatally shot on way to school last Thursday. Frimpong’s father said that he believes his son’s shooting was tied to bullying, and investigators are searching for three teenage boys in connection to the shooting. Speakers at the rally slammed the continual funding of ICE while critical programs like Medicaid were under threat. Bronx community activists instead demanded more funding for schools and afterschool programs, along with resources put toward health care and ending homelessness to tackle the crisis of gun violence.

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