Diahlo Grant: Community marches in protest for New Jersey man fatally shot by police

Many have not heard about the police shooting of Diahlo Grant, a 27-year-old man from Franklin, New Jersey.

What happened to Diahlo Grant?

Grant was shot and killed on April 9th when he encountered two uniformed Franklin Township police officers.

Police say he was pursued in New Brunswick and said there was an exchange of gunfire which Grant was killed.

Information on the Diahlo Grant shooting

Very few information has been released about the shooting and Grant’s family and friends are becoming increasingly frustrated. They do not why he was stopped nor who the officers were that killed him.

Black Lives Matter

Yesterday, community members marched in New Brunswick to protest the fatal shooting. The march was organized by the Black Lives Matter Chapter at Rutgers University’s New Brunswick campus.

Diahlo Grant’s sister Camille O’Sullivan,told NJ.com that their focus is to get answers.

“Our focus is to get answers,” said O’Sullivan, 25, before the start of the march. “To this day, it’s still so unreal what happened. We want to find out all the details. We want all the photos. The police said it was a shootout but I don’t see my brother on a suicide mission.”

“The family is asking for transparency,” said Taqwa Brookins, of Franklin, a junior at Rutgers and president of Black Lives Matters Rutgers.

“Essentially, we’re simply asking for our justice system to address crime equally, whether the individual is a law enforcement officer or a citizen.”

Seen at : nj.com