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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