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The two officers, who have not been named, are 10-year and 3-year veterans of the force and have been placed on administrative leave.Ī spokesman for the Delaware Attorney General, who is conducting an investigation into the shooting, said their names will not be released until the probe is complete. The county executive did not respond to requests for comment. On Wednesday, after the lawsuit was filed, Faulkner told Reuters in an email: "We cannot provide further comment until the ongoing investigation is complete." When the video was released, Lieutenant Brian Faulkner of the New Castle County Police Department said: "Based upon this video, we cannot draw any conclusions as to whether the officers acted within policy and the law, until all the facts are known, and the investigation is complete."
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She said the police "over murdered my son," who was himself the father of three children, aged 10 years, 9 years, and six months.Īt least one expert on police use of force interviewed by Reuters said the footage itself didn't prove the allegations that the police shooting was not justified, however.Īccording to the lawsuit, which also targets the police department and New Castle County for the officers' "excessive and unjustified" use of deadly force, none of the three "ever had a reasonable fear of imminent bodily harm." "It's just wrong, how they killed my son," Moses's mother, Rozzlie Moses, 50, told Reuters. They say it is clear from the video that Moses drove around the officers as he was trying to flee, and was fired on as he passed and then drove away from them. The subsequent footage contradicts the press release, the family and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Delaware say. As he did, an officer shouted "motherfucker". After finding marijuana in his car, and telling him the marijuana was not a problem, they asked him several times to "hop out." Moses instead drove off. When they told him they were looking for stolen cars, Moses replied that his car was not stolen, the video showed. After pressure from the family and civil rights groups, the police department was ordered in March by Matt Meyer, the New Castle County Executive, to release video footage from all three officers' body cameras.Īccording to the footage, the officers, who were out on patrol looking for stolen vehicles, found Moses asleep in his car with the engine running, woke him up and asked him to exit the vehicle.