By CYRIL JOSH BARKER Amsterdam News Staff
Not even the sound of African drums could drown out the screams that Shem Walker’s daughter Shemika let out as she walked down the aisle of the church alongside her family. “Daddy! Daddy!” she tearfully shrieked during the procession even louder than she did last week when she identified her father’s dead body.Walker was memorialized at Full Gospel Assembly Church in Brooklyn on Monday night.
The church was filled to capacity with family, friends and supporters who came to pay respects to the 49-year-old Army veteran who was unarmed and shot by an undercover police officer on July 11.
But while sorrow and celebration for Walker were in order, a new movement was born as the community and a family gets past the tears looking at the road ahead for justice that has been paved. Full Story
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