Calls grow for man who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl to be charged with hate crime
by Gloria Oladipo from on (#6AYW4)
Homeowner, 84, already faces two felonies for shooting Black teen who knocked on wrong door to pick up siblings
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 Merrit told the Associated Press.
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