People gathered in Southeast D.C. to protest the death of Alaunte Scott, who was fatally shot by deputy U.S. Marshals in late February.
on Feb. 28 by deputy U.S. marshals, who were pursuing him for a parole violation. D.C. Police, who are investigating the incident, said Scott “produced” a firearm, prompting the marshals to open fire.
The drivers and passengers gathered to protest the shooting, and to demand answers. They called for D.C. Police, who arrived at the scene shortly after Scott was shot, to release body-camera footage from responding officers.D.C. Police said Saturday that its Internal Affairs Division had completed its investigation and had forwarded its findings to the U.S. attorney’s office. Speaking in a grocery store parking lot, Scott’s mother,“I want justice served,” she said.
She rode in a car with her daughter Taijohe Scott, one of 36 vehicles to join the protest, which was organized with the help of. They affixed a sign that read “WANTED FOR THE MURDER OF ALAUNTE SCOTT” next to two photos of silhouettes captioned “Unknown U.S. Marshal.” Taijohe wrote “JUSTICE 4 ALAUNTE SCOTT” on the back windshield.
The caravan went over the Anacostia River and through Navy Yard, where people were attending an outdoor festival on a plot of grass between two gleaming new apartment buildings. A group of women did yoga while others looked on curiously.Third Street, where Scott was killed, is a residential street with long lines of apartment buildings. Children playing in a parking lot waved enthusiastically at the protesters, and one girl folded her hands into the shape of a heart.
Scott grew up in Northwest Washington and played basketball at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School. He had graduated months earlier fromLess than three weeks after Scott was killed, a D.C. teenager waswho were wearing body cameras. The teen was asleep in a car that had reportedly been stolen. An officer climbed in the back seat to detain him, and when the teen started to drive away with the officer inside, the officer shot him, the footage shows.
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