On Wednesday, Nyah Mway finished middle school in the central New York city where his family moved about a decade ago as refugees from Myanmar, relatives said.
People light candles on the sidewalk during a vigil for 13-year-old Nyah Mway in Utica, N.Y., Saturday, June 29, 2024. On Friday, June 28, Mway was fatally shot by police who’d tackled him to the ground after he allegedly pointed …
“We came to the United States, finally, to get the education and to get the good jobs here” and hoping for a peaceful life after decades of strife and violence in Myanmar, said Lay Htoo, who identified himself as one of Nyah’s cousins. The body camera video shows an officer saying he needs to pat them down for any weapons. Then one of the teens - identified as Nyah - runs away, turns and appears to point a black item at them.
A bystander video posted to Facebook also showed an officer tackling the teen and punching him as two other officers arrive, then a gunshot ringing out as the teen was on the ground. To Nyah’s cousin, Isabella Moo, however, the police narrative seemed like “trying to criminalize him a lot more and trying to protect the police officers.”
Nyah’s family fled about two decades ago from Myanmar to Thailand, where he was born in a refugee camp, and then immigrated through a resettlement program to the United States about nine years ago, Htoo said. He said the teen’s father works at a convenience store.
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