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A small group of protesters staged a sit-in Monday at the Salt Lake County district attorney's office, demanding an end to the pending criminal case against a teenager shot by police in February near a Salt Lake City homeless shelter.

"This was an attempted murder," said protester Carly Haldeman of the Feb. 27 shooting of Abdullahi "Abdi" Mohamed during a fight near the Road Home shelter at 200 South and Rio Grande.

Haldeman joined about a dozen other protesters chanting "Justice for Abdi" and "Black lives matter" at the downtown offices of Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, who deemed the shooting to have been justified and filed charges against Mohamed in connection to an alleged drug dispute that was underway when the shooting occurred.

Protesters pointed to a civilian review board finding this month that said the shooting was against Salt Lake City police department policy and called the charges "retaliatory." They also asked for officers' body camera footage from the shooting, which Gill has withheld while robbery and drug charges are pending against Mohamed.

Gill was not at the downtown offices Monday; an employee took a protester's phone number to schedule a meeting.