Breaking Bronx’s roundup of local news from today and this past weekend.

Tensions are high here in the Bronx after police officers shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old, Wakefield resident Ramarley Graham. The Amsterdam News reports that Graham’s family and friends have been rallying today and over the weekend. The Daily News and the Times report that Graham’s grandmother, who was home when the shooting occurred, says she was held for hours by police afterwards for interviews, against her will. Recently released surveillance video footage of the incident shows officers kicking down the door to Graham’s home after the teen had entered it.

In other Bronx/NYPD news:
The Associated Press reports that the lawyer for Jateik Reed, a 19-year-old whose beating at the hands of police officers was caught on tape and went viral, is asking for a special prosecutor to investigate the incident on the grounds that Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson is too close to the NYPD to to be considered impartial.

Fernando Cabrera is taking his fight for churches using public school space to Albany today. The councilman and a number of faith leaders are hoping to garner support for a state law that would reverse a city ban on churches holding service in schools.

DNAinfo profiles the two men behind the Bronx Brewery, the Mott Haven-based beer makers who turn out brews like the aptly named Bronx Pale Ale.

The Daily News profiles Deirdre Scott, head of the Bronx Council on the Arts. 

The Department of Education will vote Thursday on whether to close 25 schools on the city’s list of struggling ones, which includes Samuel Gompers, a vocational high school on Southern Boulevard. Four other Bronx schools are on the list of possible closures, and the city wants to eliminate grades at another. You can find the full list here.