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A jury has found a Fairfax County, Virginia, police officer not guilty on three assault and battery counts over a June 2020 incident in which he used his stun gun while responding to a call in the Mount Vernon area.
As a young police officer in Prince George’s County in the 1990s, Kevin Davis was accused in separate lawsuits of slamming a Black driver into the pavement during a traffic stop and, with other narcotics detectives, illegally detaining a 19-year-old.
The NAACP chapter in Fairfax County, Va., and another group are calling for Kevin Davis’s ouster over allegations of excessive force and racist comments. Davis disputes some of the claims.
April 30, 2021 at 9:30am
The Fairfax County chapter of the NAACP is not impressed by the search process and resulting hire of Kevin Davis as the county’s new police chief, effective May 3, and is calling for a do-over.
“The Fairfax County NAACP does not have confidence in the process by which the new Police Chief was hired or its results and requests that the County, in collaboration with the community, conduct a transparent search for a new Police Chief together,” President Karen Campblin wrote in a statement released yesterday (April 29).
Campblin called the process “deeply troubling” and expressed disappointment in “the lack of transparency and accountability to the public.”