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    On November 17, 2017, Bijan C. Ghaisar, a 25-year-old American, was fatally shot by US Park Police after a vehicular chase that followed a traffic collision along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia. Ghaisar was unarmed and died ten days later in a hospital. The shooting is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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      November 17, 2017
    • City/County
      George Washington Memorial Parkway: Alexandria, Virginia and Fairfax County, Virginia
    • Type of Case
      Justice for the Death / Killing of Bijan Ghaisar
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    On November 17, 2017, Bijan C. Ghaisar, a 25-year-old American, was fatally shot by US Park Police after a vehicular chase that followed a traffic collision along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia. Ghaisar was unarmed and died ten days later in a hospital. The shooting is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

    Date
    November 17, 2017
    State or Country
    Virginia
    County/City:
    George Washington Memorial Parkway: Alexandria, Virginia and Fairfax County, Virginia
    The Court the Case was filed in

    USDC of the Eastern Division of Virginia (Alexandria)

    Type of Case
    Justice for the Death / Killing of Bijan Ghaisar
    Judges

    U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton

    Plaintiff

    James and Kelara Ghaisar, the parents of the slain Virginia driver,

    Defendant

    the federal government and the then-unnamed officers.

    Plaintiff Attorney

    Attorney Roy Austin

    Police

    The officers involved in the shooting were named as
    Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya

    Two days before the second anniversary of the incident it was announced that the two Park Police officers would not be charged. In December 2019 Fairfax prosecutors announced that they would seek an indictment for the killing that occurred in their jurisdiction but the assumption of a new prosecutor to that office has resulted in further review

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    The FBI handled the criminal investigation into the shooting. More than 22 months later, no decision has been made by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu on whether to file criminal charges. Amaya, 39, and Vinyard, 38, remain on paid administrative duty, the Park Police said, with no internal investigation beginning until after the criminal ruling is made. MacLean began a new job this week as head of law enforcement agencies within the Interior Department, including the Park Police. Ghaisar’s parents staged a protest outside his office Monday.

    Judges Comments

    District Judge Claude M. Hilton agreed and dismissed the government out of the suit in January but allowed the officers to remain as defendants. Judge Hilton protects the hand that pays him

    Comments

    The Cover-Up

    The civil action, filed in federal court in Alexandria, adds several new details to the narrative of the police-involved slaying, including a claim that it took 15 minutes for an ambulance to reach Ghaisar, instead of the previously reported 11 minutes. It also includes that, at the hospital, then-Park Police Chief Robert MacLean told family members that he could not tell them anything and they could not record their conversation with him. And Inova Health Group sent the Ghaisars a bill for $71,000 for the 10 days of care rendered to the comatose shooting victim.

    Legislative response

    In January 2018, DC Congressional representative Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill to require uniformed federal police officers to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in marked vehicles. The legislation was directly in response to Ghaisar's death. Park Police Chief Robert MacLean backed out of a scheduled meeting with Holmes Norton to discuss the matter, prompting Holmes Norton to make a statement to "express our astonishment" at his absence.

    Following the release of the video, Virginia Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and Congressman Don Beyer called on the FBI for more transparency. Beyer requested a meeting with FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, who refused. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke refused requests to release the names of the Park Police involved in the shooting.[22]

    In multiple letters to the FBI, Senator Chuck Grassley requested information about the killing. Three months after his first letter, the FBI provided a short response that offered no new information and said the matter remained under investigation.

    Following the November 2019 announcement that Vinyard and Amaya would not be charged for their actions, Don Beyer said that announcement was "not justice". Grassley and Warner issued a statement expressing disapproval. DC Delegate Norton, Representative Beyer, and Representative Jennifer Wexton, called for the release of 911 tapes related to the shooting. Norton said that she believes US Park Police violated their department policies during the incident

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    Document Link 2

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/09/20/family-bijan-ghaisar-killed-by-park-police-officers-refiles-suit-vs-us/

    Document Link 3

    https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/5291-bijan-ghaisar

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