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'Small step forward' -- Interior Dept. to require body cams for law enforcement
10/03/2022 05:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Interior Department on Monday launched a set of new policies that would require thousands of law enforcement officers to wear body cameras, ensures the release of footage in some critical incidents and restricts the use of so-called no-knock warrants. The announcement
Justice Dept. says it won't reopen
Ghaisar
investigation
06/10/2022 04:04pm • The Justice Department on Friday said it would not reopen the investigation into the case of
Bijan
Ghaisar
, the unarmed motorist who was shot by U.S. Park Police in 2017. The department said in a statement that “there was insufficient evidence to establish a willful violation” of the statute,
Civil rights groups join calls for DOJ to revisit
Ghaisar
case, citing new evidence
05/19/2022 04:58pm • Forty-five organizations, including national civil rights, criminal justice reform and progressive advocacy groups, have joined Capitol Hill lawmakers in asking the U.S. Department of Justice to revisit the case of
Bijan
Ghaisar
, an unarmed motorist killed by the U.S. Park Police in 2017. A lette
'You don't do that': New evidence prompts request to have DOJ revisit
Bijan
Ghaisar
case
05/05/2022 10:54am • Capitol Hill lawmakers are calling on the Justice Department to revisit the
Bijan
Ghaisar
case, citing, in part, new evidence. In the weeks after unarmed motorist
Bijan
Ghaisar
was fatally shot by U.S. Park Police in November 2017, a Fairfax County police officer told the FBI he didn't see a Park
7 members of Congress ask Justice Department to revisit
Bijan
Ghaisar
case
05/04/2022 06:31pm • Seven members of Congress, including six from the D.C. area, are asking the Justice Department to revisit the case of
Bijan
Ghaisar
, the Virginia motorist who was shot and killed by the U.S. Park Police in 2017. “Nearly five years after the fatal shooting of
Bijan
, it remains unclear to the Gha
Family speaks out after Virginia AG ends prosecution of officers in
Bijan
Ghaisar
killing
04/23/2022 05:24pm • The parents of
Bijan
Ghaisar
stood outside of the U.S. Department of Justice in downtown D.C. on Saturday, asking for help after the Virginia Attorney General ended prosecution against two officers accused of manslaughter for fatally shooting their son. On Friday afternoon, the Virginia Attorney
Virginia AG ends effort to prosecute Park Police officers
04/23/2022 12:56pm • FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has dropped an effort to prosecute two U.S. Park Police officers who fatally shot an unarmed motorist back in 2017. The Attorney General's Office filed a motion Friday with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond withdrawin
Va. attorney general stops seeking prosecution of US Park Police officers in fatal shooting of
Bijan
Ghaisar
04/23/2022 11:33am • The Virginia Attorney General has decided to end the pursuit of prosecution against the two U.S. Park Police officers accused of killing
Bijan
Ghaisar
. Last October, a federal court tossed out involuntary manslaughter charges against U.S. Park Police officers Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya who
9 AGs back appeal of dismissed charges against officers who killed
Ghaisar
01/18/2022 05:47pm • Three months after a federal judge ruled two U.S. Park Police officers were immune from charges in the killing of unarmed Virginia driver
Bijan
Ghaisar
, nine attorneys general are asking a higher court to reconsider. After state prosecutors in Virginia appealed a U.S. district judge's decision fi
Union: Interior seeks to fire officers who shot motorist
11/24/2021 11:36am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. Park Police officers recently cleared of criminal charges in the fatal shooting of an unarmed motorist in northern Virginia have been informed that the Interior Department is seeking to fire them, union officials said Tuesday. Leaders of the Park Police’s Fraternal
Interior Department seeks to fire US Park Police officers in fatal shooting of
Bijan
Ghaisar
11/23/2021 11:49pm • Four years after two U.S. Park Police officers shot and killed
Bijan
Ghaisar
and a month after they were cleared of the charges, the officers have been informed that the Interior Department is seeking to terminate their employment. Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya received paperwork from the Nat
Prosecutors appeal dismissal of manslaughter charges against officers in
Bijan
Ghaisar
death
10/27/2021 08:43am • Virginia prosecutors are appealing the decision of a federal judge to throw out manslaughter charges against U.S. Park Police officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard in the 2017 shooting of motorist
Bijan
Ghaisar
. The notice of appeal, filed by the Virginia Attorney General's Office and the Fa
Manslaughter charges dismissed against Park Police officers in
Bijan
Ghaisar
case
10/22/2021 06:40pm • A federal court tossed out involuntary manslaughter charges against the U.S. Park Police officers who fatally shot
Bijan
Ghaisar
. A U.S. District judge said Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya, who are accused in the death of the unarmed McLean, Virginia, man following a pursuit along the George Wa
Norton, Beyer ask for body and dashboard cameras for federal officers
09/28/2021 08:12am • After bipartisan police reform talks collapsed in Congress last week, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., and Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., sent letters Monday to President Joe Biden, Capitol Police Board Chair Karen Gibson and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts asking that they require body-worn and dashb
Judge to decide immunity for US Park Police officers in
Bijan
Ghaisar
killing
08/23/2021 05:05pm • A federal judge will decide whether two U.S. Park Police officers deserve immunity and a dismissal of state charges in the 2017 killing of unarmed Virginia driver
Bijan
Ghaisar
. Officer Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard's attorneys argued in U.S. District Court in Alexandria that the federal offi
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