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Nothing a cop hates more than passing up an opportunity to kill someone.
Dalaneo Martin‘s family is still seeking justice and answers for why a law enforcement officer thought it necessary or morally right to fatally shoot him in the back multiple times according to DCNewsNow. In March 2023, the-17-year-old was asleep inside an allegedly stolen vehicle when U.S. Park Police and Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. arrived on the scene and hatched a plan to arrest him. That plan couldn’t have failed more miserably.
New video footage from the police shooting of a Black teenage driver in Washington D.C. shows Dalaneo Martin, a 17-year-old father, was shot in the back multiple times from the backseat of a moving vehicle last month. The FBI is investigating. https://t.co/5O014KQgem pic.twitter.com/qHEeMkVyus
— Bruce Coleridge-Taylor Wright (@bctw) April 6, 2023
According to Yahoo! News, the body camera footage reveals the fatal foresight that two officers had about the situation.
“So here’s the plan,” an MPD officer says. “He’s knocked out. The back window is just plastic. I’m going to try to cut that out quietly, unlock the door. If he doesn’t get startled, doesn’t wake up, then we’re going to try to get in there, grab him before he puts that car in gear. If he does take off, just let him go.”
In the footage another officer yells, “Once you break it he’s gonna wake up, start it and put it in drive to go. We don’t want nobody to get hurt.”
“Hurt” was the least of it. Below is the body camera footage from the protected and unnamed police officer who took Dalaneo’s life for nothing.
Warning: The footage is disturbing. The actual shooting has been edited but please take stock of your mental health prior to pressing play.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENTUS Park Police fatally shot Dalaneo Martin, a Black 17-year-old, after officers responded to a report of a stolen vehicle in Washington last month. Investigators opened a civil rights probe after body camera footage was released https://t.co/EZeX25AVoS pic.twitter.com/sZv86OWrKj
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 6, 2023
The anniversary of Dalaneo’s death was just three days ago on March 18, 2024 and his family is no closer to healing than they were 365 days ago.
Happening right now- Dalaneo Martin’s family is marching along Benning Road in Northeast DC demanding justice. The 17-year-old was killed by Park Police after officers say he was found inside a stolen car. @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/nfrq6kLJiP
— Rafael Sánchez-Cruz (@rafasanchezcruz) March 26, 2023
Ubiquitous civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family and spoke out during a protest gathering outside of the Department of Justice building.
“Somebody who, like my brother from another mother, committed a crime, and we will know everything about them. We would know how many detentions got in school,” Crump said. “But when a police officer shoot us six times in the back, they say, ‘it’s so private, so we got to be so careful.’”
The DOJ insists that this case is still under investigation. We call cap.
