华盛顿市议会投票改革警察部门后不到两个月，官员们公布了三起警察参与的黑人男子被杀事件的尸体摄像镜头。
周五发布的视频与2009年的死亡有关马克斯·奥尔斯顿,杰弗里·普赖斯和德全英，他们都死于2018年与大都会警察局的冲突中。
在警察参与的死亡事件后紧接着的抗议乔治·弗洛伊德5月25日在明尼苏达州，全国各地的城市已经提议或通过立法来改革警察部门的政策。
2020年7月25日，华盛顿黑生命物质广场拉斐特公园周围的围栏上悬挂着标语。
在华盛顿特区，市议会一致通过了紧急警察和司法包含15项新措施的改革法案，包括“在任何与警官有关的死亡或严重使用武力事件发生后，公布尸体磨损的摄像镜头...要求公布过去枪击事件的录像，并禁止警察在起草犯罪报告前审查这些录像。”视频必须在事件发生后72小时内发布。该法案还要求追溯释放警察参与的致命事件，例如周五释放的三起事件。
官员们表示，自2016年12月起，所有巡警都必须佩戴全身佩戴的相机。
市长穆里尔·布瑟、负责公共安全的副市长兼司法部长凯文·多纳休和警察局长彼得·纽瑟姆宣布释放这三起案件。
哥伦比亚特区市长穆里尔·布瑟在2020年7月30日的新闻发布会上发言。
马克斯·奥尔斯顿
据公共工程部称，2018年6月12日晚，身着制服的警察观察到马尔克斯·阿尔斯通在右前方裤子口袋里带着一把手枪的轮廓行走。
警察试图阻止阿尔斯通，后者步行逃入一条小巷。官员称，22岁的阿尔斯通涉嫌掏出一把手枪向警员开枪，两名警员还击。
人体摄像镜头显示，在十几枪打响之前，一名身份不明的警察在追逐阿尔斯通。官员们说，在经过编辑的慢镜头视频中，据称阿尔斯通正拿着一把枪，这把枪在枪击中从他手中被拔出，落在灌木丛中。
官员们说，警察在阿尔斯通的口袋里找到了一把上膛的手枪和另外一盒弹药。
警方称，法医科学部的独立调查发现，现场发现的四枚弹壳是从警方发现的手枪上发射的，手枪和阿尔斯通口袋里的弹匣都与他的基因相符。
2020年7月25日，华盛顿，示威者参加反对“特朗普的警察国家——捍卫抗议权”的集会。
6月，他的母亲肯蒂西亚·奥尔斯顿提交了一份1亿美元的联邦非法死亡诉讼布瑟和司法部长卡尔·拉辛。根据网上法庭记录，对该诉讼的回应尚未提交。
乔治敦大学法律中心民权诊所的律师阿德森·弗朗索瓦在诉讼中写道，公共维权部已经“三次”改变了对阿尔斯通遭遇的说法，包括阿尔斯通是先开枪还是只是用枪指着警察。
该诉讼是在周五公布录像之前提交的。该诉讼称，MPD“公开诋毁并剥夺了马奎斯的人格，并拒绝公开公布拍摄过程的摄像镜头，也拒绝公布任何证据。MPD称，这是一项内部调查，已经进行了两年，没有明显的调查结果或结论。”
弗朗索瓦在法庭文件中称，警方此前曾出示过该事件的编辑版本，但“此后，阿尔斯通试图通过《信息自由法》(Freedom of Information Act)的要求以及其他宣传活动，获取马奎斯枪击案的完整镜头，但未成功。”这让阿尔斯通既没有答案，也不清楚。MPD继续逃避完整的、未经编辑的视频的发布，并继续隐藏在长达两年的持续调查的支持下。”
2019年1月，美国检察官办公室拒绝对参与阿尔斯通死亡的官员提起刑事指控。使用武力委员会的结论是，根据部门政策，警察开枪打阿尔斯通是合理的。
杰弗里·普赖斯
周五还发布了一段11分钟的人体摄像视频，内容与2018年5月5日杰弗里·普赖斯因警方介入而死亡有关。
当局称，22岁的普莱斯在没有头盔的情况下骑着一辆土车撞上了一辆警车。他在医院被宣布死亡。
据警方称，警察正在回应一个开枪的电话，打电话的人描述说看到了一辆全地形车和一辆摩托化的土车可能与此有关。
警方称，普莱斯在高速行驶的南向车道上驾驶着越野车向北行驶。
2020年7月25日，华盛顿，示威者参加反对“特朗普的警察国家——捍卫抗议权”的集会。
警方称，普莱斯骑的那辆土车是在事故发生前四天被盗的。
普莱斯的家人在三月份对警官迈克尔·皮尔森、大卫·贾布尔和安东尼·加斯顿提起了非法死亡诉讼。
该诉讼称，在加斯顿和加博驾驶警车追逐普莱斯的过程中，皮尔森利用他的“车辆作为路障，在没有警笛的情况下进入十字路口，挡住了普莱斯的去路”，并造成了“不可避免的、故意的和故意的”碰撞。
根据法庭文件，皮尔森、贾布尔和加斯顿否认了诉讼中对他们的指控。该诉讼还将布瑟和拉辛列为被告。自诉讼提起以来，双方都没有公开发表评论。
美国检察官办公室于2019年2月结束了对该案的独立审查，拒绝对该官员提起刑事指控。使用武力审查委员会确定没有车辆追逐，但碰撞审查委员会发现事故是可以预防的。
德全英
官员们说，2018年5月9日，一名身份不明的下班宪兵队军官徒步寻找布伦特伍德娱乐中心附近一次活动的地址，据称当时德全·杨找到了他，问他打给谁。
在一次口头争吵后，杨据称拔出了一把枪。警察说，休班的警官拿出了他的勤务武器，并让杨放下武器。
“杨向警察开枪，警察的反应是对杨的躯干开了两枪，对腿开了三枪。杨跑到街上摔倒了，警察又开了几枪。杨把他的枪扔在地上，“根据新闻发布美国检察官办公室，2019年7月。
官员们周五公布了娱乐中心摄像机拍摄的事件片段。这位警官没有值班，因此没有带照相机。视频显示，事件似乎发生在60秒内。
公共工程部还发布了一名响应警官的身体摄像机的镜头，显示警察和急救服务技术人员向杨提供援助。
“来吧，伙计，和我呆在一起，”视频中的一名警官回应道。
24岁的杨当场被宣布死亡。
在这张2020年6月3日的档案照片中，示威者站在华盛顿特区国民警卫队和其他执法人员面前，和平抗议警察暴行和乔治·弗洛伊德在DC的死亡。
居民们告诉美国广播公司WJLA分公司事件发生后，下班的警察开枪打死了正在逃跑的杨。
“经过对证据的仔细、彻底和独立的审查，联邦检察官发现没有足够的证据证明，在合理的怀疑之外，这名休班的警官在当时的情况下打着法律的旗号或者使用了过度的武力，因此不能提起民事权利指控。”美国检察官办公室称。“联邦检察官还发现，没有足够的证据证明，除了合理的怀疑之外，这名休班警官没有采取自卫行动，因此哥伦比亚特区的杀人指控不能立案。”
官员们周五表示，在部门政策范围内，使用武力审查委员会将这名休班军官的枪击事件列为正当行为。
Washington, DC, releases video of 3 deadly police-involved incidents in response to new reform bill
Less than two months after Washington, D.C.'s city council voted to reform its police department, officials have released the body camera footage from three police-involved incidents in which Black men were killed.
The videos released on Friday were related to the deaths ofMarqueese Alston,Jeffrey PriceandD'Quan Young, who all died in 2018 during encounters with the Metropolitan Police Department.
On the heels of protests after the police-involved death ofGeorge Floydon May 25 in Minnesota, cities across the country have proposed or passed legislation to reform police department policies.
In Washington, D.C., the city council unanimously passed an emergency police and justicereform bill that contained 15 new measures, including "the release of body-worn camera footage after any officer-involved death or serious use of force ... requires release of footage from past shootings, and bans officers from reviewing it prior to drafting crime reports." The video must be released within 72 hours of the incidents. The bill also requires the retroactive release of deadly police-involved incidents, such as the three released Friday.
Since December 2016, all patrol officers are required to wear body worn cameras, officials said.
Mayor Muriel Bowser, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Kevin Donahue and Police Chief Peter Newsham announced the release of these three cases.
Marqueese Alston
On the evening of June 12, 2018, uniformed officers observed Marqueese Alston walking with an outline of a handgun in his front right pants pocket area, according to the MPD.
Officers attempted to stop Alston, who fled on foot into an alley. Alston, 22, allegedly produced a handgun and fired at officers, while two officers returned fire, officials said.
Body camera footage shows one of the unidentified officers running after Alston before more than a dozen shots were fired. In the edited and slow-motion video, Alston is allegedly holding a gun that was dislodged from his hand during the gunfire and landed in shrubs, officials said.
Officers recovered a loaded handgun plus an additional magazine of ammunition in Alston's pocket, officials said.
The independent investigation by the Department of Forensic Sciences found that four shell casings recovered on the scene had been fired from the handgun found by police and both the magazines in the handgun and in Alston's pocket matched his DNA, police said.
In June, his mother, Kenithia Alston, filed a$100 million federal wrongful death lawsuitagainst the unidentified officers, Bowser and Attorney General Karl Racine. Responses to the lawsuit have not been filed, according to online court records.
Aderson Francois, an attorney with the Civil Rights Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, wrote in the lawsuit that the MPD has changed its story about what happened to Alston "three times," including whether Alston opened fire first or just pointed a gun at the officers.
Filed prior to the release of footage on Friday, the lawsuit said the MPD had "publicly denigrated and dehumanized Marqueese, and it has refused to publicly release camera footage of the shooting or any evidence from what it claims is an internal investigation that has now gone on for two years with no apparent findings or conclusions."
Francois said in court documents that the police previously showed a redacted version of the incident, but "Ms. Alston has since attempted unsuccessfully to obtain access to the full footage of Marqueese's shooting through a Freedom of Information Act request, among other advocacy efforts. This left Ms. Alston with neither answers nor clarity. MPD continues to evade release of the full, unredacted video, and continues to hide behind the auspices of a two-year long ongoing investigation."
The U.S. Attorney's Office in January 2019 declined to file criminal charges against the officers involved in Alston's death. The Use of Force Board concluded that the officers were justified in shooting Alston according to departmental policy.
Jeffrey Price
An 11-minute body camera video was also released on Friday related to the May 5, 2018, police-involved death of Jeffrey Price.
Price, 22, was riding a dirt bike without a helmet when he crashed into a police car, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Officers were responding to a call of shots fired during which the caller described seeing an ATV and motorized dirt bike that might be involved, according to police.
Police said Price was driving the dirt bike northbound in the southbound lanes of traffic at a high rate of speed.
The dirt bike Price was on was reported stolen four days before the accident, police said.
The family of Price filed a wrongful death lawsuit in March against officers Michael Pearson, David Jarboe and Anthony Gaston.
The lawsuit claims that as Gaston and Jarboe chased Price in their police cars, Pearson used his "vehicle as a barricade to block the path of" Price by entering an intersection without the sirens on and caused an "unavoidable, deliberate and intentional" collision," according to the lawsuit.
Pearson, Jarboe and Gaston have denied the allegations against them in the lawsuit, according to court documents. The lawsuit also lists Bowser and Racine as defendants. Neither has publicly commented since the lawsuit was filed.
The U.S. Attorney's Office, which concluded an independent review of the case in February 2019, declined to file criminal charges against the officer. The Use of Force Review Board determined that there wasn't a vehicular pursuit, but the Crash Review Board found that the accident was preventable.
D'Quan Young
An unidentified off-duty MPD officer was on foot May 9, 2018, looking for the address to an event near the Brentwood Recreation Center when he was allegedly approached by D'Quan Young, who asked him who he was calling, officials said.
After a verbal altercation, Young allegedly pulled out a gun. The off-duty officer pulled out his service weapon and told Young to drop his weapon, police said.
"Young fired at the officer, who responded by shooting Young two times in the torso and three times in the leg. Young ran into the street and fell while the officer fired additional shots. Young dropped his firearm on the ground," according to a press release issued by theU.S. Attorney's Office in July 2019.
Officials released footage of the incident on Friday from the recreation center's cameras. The officer was not on-duty and therefore wasn't wearing a camera. The incident appeared to happen within 60 seconds, according to the video.
The MPD also released footage from a responding officer's body camera showing police and emergency service technicians rendering aid to Young.
"C'mon man, stay with me," said one of the responding officers on the video.
Young, 24, was pronounced dead on the scene.
Residents toldABC affiliate WJLAafter the incident that the off-duty officer shot Young as he was running away from him.
"After a careful, thorough, and independent review of the evidence, federal prosecutors have found insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the off-duty officer acted under color of law or used excessive force under the circumstances, and therefore that civil rights charges cannot be filed," theU.S. Attorney's Office said. "Federal prosecutors have also found insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the off-duty officer did not act in self-defense, and therefore that District of Columbia homicide charges cannot be filed."
The Use of Force Review Board classified the shooting by the off-duty officer as justified, within departmental policy, officials said on Friday.
