MPD’s internal affairs investigation and D.C. prosecutors earlier determined the shooting was justified. Federal prosecutors in November declined to pursue civil rights charges against any D.C. officers in the case.
The shooting prompted protests in the city, one at the 7th District police station and another at the mayor’s house.
The report is the fifth conducted for Patterson’s office by The Bromwich Group, led by Michael Bromwich, who served as Monitor for a Memorandum of Agreement on police use of force between D.C. and Dept. of Justice, from 2001 to 2008.
The shooting came after Officer Alexander Alvarez and other members of the Seventh District Crime Suppression Team saw Kay and three others inside a Dodge Caliber brandishing guns on an Instagram Live feed and went searching for the car. When the police arrived, Kay, whom the police said they knew, got out of the car and ran. As Kay ran toward Alvarez, with a gun in his right hand, Alvarez shot Kay six seconds after ge
A new report finds that although the officer shooting and killing of 18-year-old Deon Kay was justified, citing self defense, it also says there were a series.
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If the District gleans anything from this moment, it should be that implementing radical policies early and comprehensively work in slowing disease spread and saving lives. The city’s COVID-19 case and fatality rates, per capita, were among the lowest in the United States. A new report prepared for the Office of the D.C. Auditor concluded that swift policy action successfully slowed the spread of the coronavirus in the city.
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A student walks through the halls of Cardozo High School on March 12, 2020. Cardozo had problems like asbestos and lead pipes before being renovated in 2011. (Rachel Wisniewski for WHYY)
Christopher Moses encountered dire conditions at Washington, D.C.’s Calvin Coolidge High School when he entered as a freshman in 2016.
Damaged floors, 70-year-old boilers, no central air conditioning, dangerously obsolete wiring, and a leaky, crumbling roof.
“Everything was just torn down,” Moses recalled. “We weren’t allowed to go on the fourth floor. And then the lockers, we couldn’t use them because they were messed up, destroyed. It was rats and all that, so it was really bad. Cockroaches. It was bad.”