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Police Continue to Withhold Information in Case of Korryn Gaines

HeadlineAug 22, 2016

In Maryland, Baltimore County police say they will continue to withhold the names of the officers involved in the August 1 shooting of Korryn Gaines, a 23-year-old African-American mother shot by police in her apartment after an hours-long standoff. The officer who shot Gaines has been assigned to administrative duties. There is body camera footage of the standoff prior to the shooting, but police claim there is no footage of the shooting itself. Gaines live-streamed the beginning of the standoff on Facebook, before Facebook responded to a police request to shut down Gaines’s account. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and activists have both questioned official police accounts of the shooting. Gaines’s five-year-old son, Kodi, was also injured by police gunfire. This is Gaines’s cousin, Creo Brady, speaking last week at her funeral.

Creo Brady: “Our family wants justice for Korryn Gaines. We have some unanswered questions that need to be answered. Number one, if the officer, what appears in the video to have a body camera on, where’s the footage? We do know that Kodi has a testimony to the accounts of things that happened which are contradictory to the stories that are being told.”

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