Gregory Chavis

How they died

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While leaving a movie theater Chavis and friends got into a verbal altercation with another group, and Chavis was shot by an unknown person. He was left bleeding on the sidewalk. His family and a witness contended that NYPD deliberately delayed medical attention for half an hour, with Lincoln Hospital only a block away, and caused Chavis's death. In a wrongful death proceeding the state's defense included the assertion that "Chavis had no constitutional right to medical treatment".

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Gregory Chavis, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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