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Video: Demonstrators At South Bay Call For Justice In Shacoby Kenny Killing

The latest on the escalating situation in the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department

Protesters rallied outside South Bay House of Correction last Friday, calling again for justice in the December killing of Shacoby Kenny. (Read prior BINJ coverage here).

Kenny’s death was ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner’s office in July, and witnesses have told media outlets that corrections officers brutally beat Kenny.

The state AG’s office is leading a criminal investigation, but no charges have been filed yet.  

The protest inserted the case into the state’s upcoming primary elections, featuring remarks from former Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins—who is running for that position again—and independent gubernatorial candidate Andrea James.

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ELIZA DEWEY

Eliza Dewey is a freelance reporter and video producer who has worked in journalism for ten years. She was a producer for the Boston Globe's first-ever television show, Boston Globe Today, and for GBH News' public affairs program, 'Greater Boston.' She also worked on an investigative television series in Miami (Fusion TV’s ‘The Naked Truth’) and she self-published stories on women's rights activism in India. She received her journalism master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School, where she specialized at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and wrote a longform piece about addiction services for people approaching release from incarceration. You can check out more of her work at elizadewey.com.
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