When a Black teenager died in a house fire during a SWAT raid in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last week, he became the new face of alleged police misconduct in a city where cops have long attracted harsh scrutiny.
But the grim episode was made darker by the fact that the 15-year-old’s own father was killed by a member of one of the law-enforcement agencies involved in the incident.
Shela Rosenau, the boy’s aunt, said in an interview that the death last Thursday of her nephew, Brett, hit hard. Their relationship had only been rekindled in the last few years, after the teen reached out through Facebook with questions about his father’s family.
