Anquan Boldin and Malcolm Jenkins Speak at Congressional Forum on Community-Police Relations

During a congressional forum on building trust between the nation’s communities and police, a 36-year-old black man sat before several prominent African-American leaders and delivered chilling testimony about his cousin, who died in October 2015 at the hands of a plainclothes officer. Corey Jones was driving home from a show with his church band around 2 a.m. when his car broke down on the side of a Florida highway. A white cargo van pulled up, and out of it emerged Officer Nouman Raja in jeans, sneakers and a T-shirt. In the ensuing moments, Raja fired six shots, and Jones was dead. “I wish I could tell you Corey’s story was unique. I wish I could tell you that now, over a year later, we know exactly what happened and that the issue was resolved,” the man told U.S. Reps. Lacy Clay (D-Missouri), Brenda Lawrence (D-Michigan), John Conyers (D-Michigan), Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Cedric Richmond (D-Louisiana) and Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.