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"I did a funeral for a 17-year-old whom I had baptized when he was 14," Reverend McKoy told me. "He got caught up in some kind of little drug thing, he was beaten to death, rolled up in a rug, doused in bleach and thrown into a ravine. I remember how absolutely, I mean, I felt like a complete failure. He had called me and asked me to help him get a job, and I don't think I looked as hard as I should have, because at the time, I swear, I didn't know he was caught up like that. I don't think I worked hard enough. I should have done more. And at that point I decided I needed to do something, but what that something was I didn't know."On VICE News: Backlash Against Police Use of Force Is Making Its Way into US Courtrooms
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