Mohammad Raees, 30, was killed in police firing when the anti-CAA demonstrations in Kanpur turned violent. But he wasn’t even protesting, Raees’s distraught father told Brut India.
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00:00He started crossing the road and the police shot him in the head and my son fell down.
00:10After that, he was taken to the hospital.
00:13When he reached the hospital, my son was shivering and saying,
00:16Father, we are going to die.
00:30My son was washing the utensils of his in-laws.
00:59I was watching him.
01:04And then, I saw that they were fighting.
01:11My son was running to his home, crossing the road.
01:14The police shot him in the head and my son fell down.
01:20After that, he was taken to the hospital.
01:23When we reached the hospital, my son was in a lot of pain.
01:26He said, father, we're going to die.
01:28Father, we're going to die.
01:30Father, we're going to die.
01:31We said, son, if something like this happens to you,
01:35we'll beg and go without food.
01:38Our son was shot in the stomach.
01:40The doctors didn't let us meet our son.
01:44They didn't let us meet our son.
01:46He came close to my son.
01:48When my son died,
01:50they didn't tell us anything.
01:54Did your son die or is he alive?
01:57Now we're going to beg.
01:59We have four daughters.
02:01This is what our son used to earn for us.