August 14, 2003	Thursday	Jumadi-us-Sani 15, 1424

WASHINGTON, Aug 13: A South Asian advocacy group has urged people of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin to join a protest rally in Los Angeles on Friday to protest the recent shooting to death of a Bangladeshi by the city’s police.

The victim, Yousuf Mollah, had a history of mental illness and was shot by LA police on July 27 in his North Hollywood apartment. The cause of the shooting was “not entirely clear”, said the South Asian Network.

The SAN statement said that although the police knew that Yousuf had been shot, they did not call for medical assistance.

They finally fired tear gas canisters into the apartment at 9:30 and rammed his door down and found his body.