Metropolitan Police Department

Demonstrators clashed with D.C. police outside a station in Northwest for a second night, throwing fireworks as officers forced them back. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke with the father of Karon Hylton-Brown.

Mourners poured into a Southeast D.C. church on Thursday to pay their respects to Deon Kay, an 18-year-old who was shot and killed this month by a police officer.  The crowd that gathered at The Temple of Praise included many young people. Kay was shot and killed by a Metropolitan Police Department officer on Orange Street SE on Sept....

Police shot 18-year-old Deon Kay in September after responding to a call for people with weapons. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Editor’s Note (Sept. 8, 4:02 p.m. ET): The event was cancelled. The family of Deon Kay, the 18-year-old who was fatally shot by D.C police less than a week ago, was expected to address the public on Tuesday. Kay’s family was set to speak where he was killed by an officer on Wednesday, Sept. 2, seven seconds after the...

The police killing of 18-year-old Deon Kay in Southeast D.C. last week continues to draw criticism from civil rights groups. An organizer with Black Lives Matter DC said Monday that the Metropolitan Police Department tactic of having officers jump out of cars and chase people leads to deadly shootings.  “This is the systematic way that MPD operates and polices...

The police killing of an 18-year-old in Southeast Washington last week continues to draw criticism from civil rights groups. News4’s Mark Segraves spoke to a local Black Lives Matter leader about the killing of Deon Kay.

Demonstrators protesting the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Deon Kay Wednesday got face-to-face with police outside the 7th District station Saturday night.

Protests outside the 7th District police headquarters after the death of Deon Kaye.

Protesters arrested at Black Lives Matter Plaza last weekend say despite the fact they were not ultimately charged, they are still waiting for items seized from them to be returned. Among those waiting, a citizen journalist whose cameras were taken by police. News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke to him.

An officer fatally shot an 18-year-old in Southeast D.C. Wednesday, police say, prompting protests outside a police station.

Body camera footage in the D.C. police killing of an 18-year-old on Wednesday will be the first footage released to the public within days of a killing, in line with new police reforms. The Metropolitan Police Department is set to release footage Thursday after an officer shot and killed 18-year-old Deon Kay in Southeast D.C.  Kay is the first...

A deadly police-involved shooting in Southeast D.C is the first since the city’s new police reform legislation took effect. News4’s Mark Segraves explains what that means for the investigation, and what the public and family of the victim can expect.

Dozens of protesters gathered outside a police station and demanded answers after an officer shot and killed a man in Southeast. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A D.C. police officer shot and killed a man in Southeast on Wednesday, police say. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

A man who was arrested for driving a van into a crowd of protesters near Black Lives Matter Plaza over the weekend was released and faces no charges.  Jeremy Vajko, 27, was arrested by D.C. police on a reckless driving charge. Video shows an officer ordering him to stop the van he said he’s used to support protesters in...

D.C.’s mayor and police chief blamed “outside agitators” for violence against officers over the weekend. News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke to a man who was arrested after driving a van into the protests. He was released from jail and faces no charges.

The D.C. police department will release body camera footage of the 2018 police killing of 22-year-old Marqueese Alston and of two other confrontations that resulted in men’s deaths. Alston died after he was shot by officers after police say he fired at them. Jeffrey Price was riding a dirt bike when he crashed into a police car in 2018, police…

The family of a man killed by D.C. police is lashing out at what it’s calling a PR stunt. The city released video of the deadly gun battle from 2018, but the family’s attorney told News4’s Shomari Stone the footage does not show how it all happened.

Police released edited footage Friday of three confrontations that resulted in men’s deaths. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.