More than 200 people attended a meeting November 30 at a community center in Fort Lauderdale, located in Broward County just north of Miami, to express their outrage and demand an investigation. Marsha Ellison, president of the Fort Lauderdale NAACP, said people are often intimidated about filing complaints with the police department. “When we file a complaint, the one we file a complaint on comes back and harasses us,” Sharanda Morgan said.

The NAACP requested a federal investigation into the string of police shootings, and the FBI is now conducting a probe in the killing of Eddines, the Miami Herald reported.

Some 350 people attended the funeral for Eddines on December 9 and a vigil was held a few days earlier near the site where the youth was killed.

The local media and the police have tried to paint both men as criminals. The cops have not given an official statement.

Eight people have been killed by police in Broward County in 2006.
 
 
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