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After the Suspension: What New York Owes Boys Like Javits Frimpong

On the morning of Thursday, October 29, Javits Frimpong set off for school. Near Crotona Park in the Bronx he was shot in the stomach. He ran about a block before he collapsed. He was 15. He had been in New York for about a year. His father, Thomas, a yellow-cab driver, had brought him