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Gloria Oladipo

Calls grow for man who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl to be charged with hate crime

Supporters of Ralph Yarl gather on 18 April in Kansas City, Missouri.
Supporters of Ralph Yarl gather on Tuesday in Kansas City, Missouri. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP

A lawyer for the family of Ralph Yarl, the Black 16-year-old who was shot by a white man in Kansas City, Missouri, after ringing his doorbell by mistake, said the case should qualify as a hate crime.

“Ralph Yarl was shot because he was armed with nothing but other than his Black skin,” Lee Merritt told the Associated Press.

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