US investigators opened a civil rights probe into the fatal shooting of Dalaneo Martin, a Black teenager, by a US Park Police officer in Washington, a day after bodycam footage prompted the victim's family to call for the shooter to be prosecuted and fired
officers approaching the car to pull the driver out. One of the Park Police officers jumped into the back seat and yelled, "Police, don't move. Don't move. Don't move." The driver then took off with the officer in the back seat.
Police said the driver died at the scene and a gun was recovered inside the vehicle. The car crashed into a nearby house and the officer jumped out of it, the footage showed."The loss of a life is always tragic but is especially heartbreaking when it involves a child," the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington said in a statement announcing the federal investigation. It described the bodycam footage as "extremely upsetting.
In another violent confrontation captured on body-cam video, Memphis police officers on Jan. 7 pummeled a Black motorist, Tyre Nichols, with kicks, punches and baton blows after a traffic stop. Nichols later died from injuries sustained in the beating. Jade Mathis, an attorney for the Martin family, told the Washington Post that their initial reaction to the footage was tears that quickly turned to anger.
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