BUFFALO, N.Y. — Community members gathered at the space on Jefferson where a former Afro Asian Book Shop bookstore once stood to support Geraldine Pointer and Martin Sostre. At this store was where Sostre and Pointer were allegedly wrongfully arrested on July 15, 1967.
Pointer and Sostre both served time behind bars after police accused them of selling drugs and weapons from inside the bookstore.
Community members are calling for the Erie County DA to remove their convictions.
Now 57 years later their families and loved ones say they were innocent from the start.
On Monday night, 2 On Your Side spoke with Geraldine and her son.
Martin Sostre died in 2015 at the age of 92. He was well known for his role in the prisoner's rights movement.