t was early August, exactly two months after the largest raid in New York City history at the Grant and Manhattanville housing projects, when 20 people, mostly older folks, crammed into the Community Board 9 office in a tiny storefront in Harlem.
"We want to get our kids back,” Haynes said. “But what are we bringing them back to?”
The group was made up of parents and relatives of those arrested — the raid resulted in the indictment of 100 young people from the neighboring housing projects. The group included family members of victims of the violence that had escalated since the death of Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy, a basketball star who was 18 when she was murdered in a hallway of the Grant Houses in 2011.
Residents and law enforcement officials say it was her slaying that enflamed a long-running feud between the rival houses, leading to retaliatory beatings, stabbings and fatal shootings.
[For more of this story, written by Roxanna Asgarian, go to http://jjie.org/harlem-raid-fa...-make-a-plan/107562/]
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