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Federal court claims jurisdiction over Park Police shooting 04/23/2021 12:40pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge on Friday placed the prosecution of two U.S. Park Police officers accused of fatally shooting an unarmed motorist in Virginia under federal jurisdiction. State and local prosecutors argued unsuccessfully at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria that the invo Park Police officers indicted in Bijan Ghaisar's death have cases moved to federal court 04/23/2021 12:37pm • Two U.S. Park Police officers, who shot and killed Bijan Ghaisar in 2017 and were indicted in Fairfax County on manslaughter and weapons charges, will have their criminal cases moved out of a Virginia state court and into an Alexandria federal courtroom, a judge ruled Friday. Officers Alejandro A First African-American woman to be next US Park Police chief 02/25/2021 10:01pm • Pamela A. Smith, a 23-year veteran of the force, will become the first African-American woman to lead the U.S. Park Police. (Courtesy National Park Service) The U.S. Park Police will make history when its next police chief takes the reins of the department on Sunday. Pamela A. Smith, a 23-year v Defense attorneys seek to move Bijan Ghaisar case to federal court 11/17/2020 08:00pm • Attorneys representing the two U.S. Park Police officers charged in the 2017 shooting death of Bijan Ghaisar are seeking to move their cases to federal court. In two separate motions filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria, attorneys for officers Lucas Viny US Park Police officers released until Bijan Ghaisar trial 10/19/2020 03:36pm • Two U.S. Park Police officers have been released until they stand trial for manslaughter and reckless use of a firearm in the 2017 death of unarmed motorist Bijan Ghaisar. Officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard appeared by video hookup from jail, and were released on a $10,000 personal recogn Fairfax Co. prosecutor explains decision against murder charges in Bijan Ghaisar case 10/16/2020 11:29am • After an almost three year investigation and cries for justice in the 2017 shooting of unarmed driver Bijan Ghaisar, Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano said Thursday's indictments of two U.S. Park Police officers for manslaughter and reckless use of a firearm fit the crimes in the Indictments secured against officers in Bijan Ghaisar killing 10/15/2020 11:30pm • Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano said on Thursday that he has secured indictments that include manslaughter against the two U.S. Park Police officers who shot and killed Bijan Ghaisar, an accountant from McLean, Virginia. Each officer has been charged with one count of manslau Park Police must wear bodycams, Ghaisar's mother tells lawmakers 09/29/2020 09:43pm • It was nearly three years ago — Nov. 17, 2017 — that Bijan Ghaisar was shot to death by U.S. Park Police after a minor crash on the George Washington Parkway in Virginia. Ghaisar's mother Kelly, of McLean, told a House subcommittee Tuesday that Park Police must be held accountable for her son Va. Sen. Mark Warner 'bitterly disappointed' by lack of answers from Park Police in Bijan Ghaisar shooting 08/06/2020 08:20pm • As the three-year anniversary of the shooting death of motorist Bijan Ghaisar by U.S. Park Police approaches, Virginia's senior senator is growing increasingly frustrated at the lack of answers. “I have been bitterly disappointed by the Park Police’s response,” U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) US Park Police chief 'not in a position' to adopt body worn cameras 07/29/2020 09:30am • Acting U.S. Park Police Chief Gregory T. Monahan testifies before a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on actions taken on June 1, 2020 at Lafayette Square, Tuesday, July 28, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Bill Clark/Pool via AP) Almost three years since U.S. Park Police officers ch US Park Police accused of 'stonewalling' in shooting death of Bijan Ghaisar 07/10/2020 04:30pm • Bijan Ghaisar, 25, was fatally shot by U.S. Park Police in November 2017. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein) Members of Congress are accusing U.S. Park Police of delaying "in every conceivable way" efforts to hold two officers accountable for the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar during a 2017 tra Fairfax police chief said DOJ criticism about local cooperation after Ghaisar shooting is false 02/16/2020 11:00pm • The chief of police in Fairfax County, Virginia, is speaking up after the Department of Justice claimed his department didn’t work with federal investigators during its investigation into the police-involved shooting death of a McLean man in 2017. “That is absolutely not the truth,” Fairfax New Fairfax County commonwealth's attorney 'working tirelessly' to investigate Bijan Ghaisar's killing 01/30/2020 07:29pm • FILE — Steve Descano, then the commonwealth's attorney-elect of Fairfax County, Virginia, speaks at an event at the Center for American Progress about Virginia's newly elected progressive prosecutors on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Mor Fairfax Co. prosecutors seek indictments against Park Police officers in Bijan Ghaisar's fatal shooting 12/19/2019 01:14am • Prosecutors in Fairfax County, Virginia, seek to bring a case against two U.S. Park Police officers over the fatal shooting of Bijan Ghaisar in 2017. First reported by The Washington Post, a Ghaisar family lawyer said Commonwealth's Attorney Raymond Morrogh's office informed him on Wednesday that Arlington County releases part of 911 call in Bijan Ghaisar case 12/03/2019 12:22pm • Officials in Arlington County, Virginia, have released part of a 911 call that set in motion a chase that ended when U.S. Park Police shot and killed Bijan Ghaisar in 2017. In a one-minute-36-second 911 recording, released to Fox 5 by the county, a caller tells Arlington County police that she is