Updated on January 28, 2021 at 11:45 am
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One Prince George’s County resident after another described their loved one’s fatal encounter with police brutality. Some survived; others did not.
“My cousin sat in a car handcuffed and was shot six times,” Nikki Owens said about her cousin William Green and started to cry.
“You really don’t treat a dog the way they treated my son. They shot him 14 times,” Dorothy Elliot said about her son Artie Elliot, also fighting tears.
Family members of Maryland residents who were brutalized or killed by police are fighting for changes to state laws, they said Wednesday.