NAACP seeks federal charges

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The Rev. Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, head of the Baltimore City National Association for Advancement of Colored People, demanded Wednesday that manslaughter charges be brought against six juvenile-school counselors he blamed for a teenager?s death.

A year ago Wednesday, Isaiah Simmons III, 17, of Baltimore, died after being held down for three hours by counselors at Bowling Brook Preparatory School in Keymar until he stopped breathing, his family says. By the time counselors called 911 ? 41 minutes later, according to police ? it was too late.

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