Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 Biden's fiscal program: What is the likely market impact? McConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security MORE is seen comforting a New York woman whose brother was killed by police in an emotional video released Friday by the Albany chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Dontay Ivy, 39, was killed by Albany police last April as he walked home from an ATM. Police officers tackled him, tasered him and hit him with batons.

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Johnson told Sanders she used to walk her mentally ill brother to the store to keep him safe but never expected him to be killed by police. None of the officers were charged for his death.

A grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing on the part of the officers involved, in part due to a lack of witnesses. Dashboard cameras in patrol cars were reportedly turned off.

Shaking his head, Sanders put his arm around a crying Johnson.

“I worried about my brother all the time. I thought outside elements would hurt him. But the people who were supposed to protect him, they’re the ones who hurt him,” Johnson said through tears.

“I got the racial profiling issues, I got it,” Sanders said to the group before a rally in New York Monday.

“And I got the need for police reform. What we should be doing is training police officers to deal with issues, although this doesn’t seem to be a terribly difficult issue, this is not like somebody with a weapon or anything. It’s a guy walking down the street, right? Going home. It’s not exactly a major crime.”

“What we don’t have yet is a culture in this country that says to the police departments that lethal force, in this case using a Taser several times is a last resort, not a first resort, right? Clearly, in this particular case, it can be dealt with in a hundred different ways,” Sanders said.

Sanders has long expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement, often addressing incarceration rates, black unemployment, education and police brutality in his speeches, though he’s performed poorly among minority voters compared to rival Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonWhat Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Bipartisan praise pours in after Ginsburg's death Trump carries on with rally, unaware of Ginsburg's death MORE.

Both candidates are making a push to win over minority voters ahead of New York’s primary next week, where Clinton is leading in the polls. She has a 14 point lead over the Vermont senator, 53 percent to 39 percent, according to a RealClearPolitics average.

In a Monmouth University poll released Monday, Clinton had a large lead over Sanders among black, Hispanic and other minority voters, at 62 to 22 percent.

Updated at 1:41 p.m.