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Jun 11, 2020 · Thirty-five years ago, June 12, 1985, Edmund Perry was fatally shot by a police officer on a street corner in his native New York City. He had graduated from the Academy just 10 days earlier and was spending summer at home working for a Wall Street brokerage firm before starting at Stanford University that fall. He was 17 years old.
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Edmund Perry, a Harlem resident, was shot to death by Lee Van Houten, a 24-year-old plainclothes policeman, on June 12, 1985 when he was 17 years old.
On June 12, 1985 seventeen year old Edmund Perry was shot to death in Harlem by a white police officer. Eddie’s death made headline news and sparked protest, not because he was a young black male shot by a white police officer, but because Eddie didn’t fit the bill of what could have otherwise been portrayed as the death of a thug whose ...
Jun 30, 1985 · Edmund Perry lived in two worlds: the elite world of Phillips Exeter Academy, with its ivy-encrusted walls, and the downtrodden world of Harlem, with its drugs and crime and hopelessness. The...
Aug 13, 1985 · Edmund Perry was shot near Morningside Park, a no-man's land separating the Columbia University area of Morningside Heights from the "valley" below -- the Harlem ghetto.
Jan 5, 1992 · The real story is how Edmund Perry was plucked by fortune from his mean streets and given a rare education opportunity.
Feb 28, 2012 · After a skirmish with an undercover police officer, Perry was shot in his abdomen and died shortly thereafter. The story of Perry’s death elicited many public responses, particularly in the context of regular charges of police brutality directed at the New York City police department.
