Marqueese Alston
On June 12, 2018, officers with the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department shot 22 year old Marqueese Alston 15 times and killed him. For two years Marqueese’s mother, Kenithia Alston has been begging for the truth about what really happened to her son. She has asked continuously for body cam footage that comes from the officers who were there only to have her FOIA request denied. She appealed, and is still awaiting a copy of the body worn footage two years later. Ms. Alston was able to view a short, edited version of the body camera footage, but that it did not convince her that her son was armed. She also said it shows that her son was “running away from police when he was shot.” the Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city government on Ms. Alston’s behalf. The suit claims that her 22-year-old son Marqueese Alston was confronted and chased by the police “without good cause or valid basis” and shot 12 to 18 times.