As the fatal shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin roils the
nation, residents of Pasadena, Calif., are trying to come to grips with their
own needless death. It involves another youth who, in this instance, was shot by
the Pasadena Police Department after they received a 911 call about an armed
robbery on March 24. Kendrec McDade’s death took an even more tragic turn when, in
the aftermath of the shooting, the police learned that the 911 caller had lied
about 19-year-old McDade having a gun.
The case has drawn parallels to the Martin case because both of the dead
teenagers were black and unarmed. “They were young black men who are, when the
situation comes up, targets of violence,” says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, the
president of the Los Angeles Urban Police Roundtable. But that is where the
similarity ends, argues Lt. Phlunte Riddle of the Pasadena P.D. Self-appointed
neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot Martin as he was walking
home, whereas McDade and his juvenile accomplice allegedly attempted to break
into a cash register
at a restaurant prior to stealing a backpack and computer from a parked car,
said Riddle. McDade acted as a “lookout” during the alleged burglary, according
to Riddle.
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A photo of Kendrec McDade, a 19-year-old
who was shot and killed by Pasadena police officers March 24. "I just want to
make sure justice is served for my son," says his mother, Anya Slaughter. (Cheryl A.
Guerrero / Staff Photographer / March 28, 2012)
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