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Scot X. Esdaile, President of the Connecticut State Conference of NAACP Branches, accompanied by members of the Jashon Bryant family, right, talks to the press outside the Abraham A. Ribicoff Federal Building in Hartford, Conn., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. The Connecticut Conference NAACP, the Hartford Branch NAACP, and the family of Jashon Bryant, deceased, held a press conference in an effort to persuade the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the death of Bryant by gunshot caused by ex-Hartford Police Officer Robert Lawlor on May, 7, 2005, for any violation of federal civil rights law.