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Contacts:.The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Innocence Project, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) reported today that the FBI has concluded that the examiners testimony in at least 90 percent of trial transcripts the Bureau analyzed as part of its Microscopic Hair Comparison Analysis Review contained erroneous statements. ....
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Share this: Deon Kay poses with his mentor, Omar Jackson. An MPD officer shot and killed Kay on the afternoon of Sept. 2, 2020. Get to know D.C. with our daily newsletter We dive deep on the day’s biggest story and share links to everything you need to know. Get the free newsletter Success! You re on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn t process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… At the moment MPD Officer Alexander Alvarez decided to shoot Deon Kay on Sept. 2, 2020, he was justified in doing so, the Metropolitan Police Department’s internal investigation found. A team of independent auditors agreed with that assessment. But Alvarez’s “unnecessary” and reckless actions in the crucial moments leading up to his encounter with Kay, an 18-year-old resident of Southeast D.C., ultimately led to Kay’s death, the audit team determined in a report r ....
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 seco ....
Better tactics may have prevented fatal shooting by D.C. police, audit finds washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.