Park Police killed a young man in Virginia. Since then, four months of silence.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/park-police-killed-a-young-man-in-virginia-since-then-four-months-of-silence/2018/04/01/24367d0e-2c81-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html?utm_term=.4bc064416055

NEARLY 1,000 people were killed by police in America last year, but extremely few of them under circumstances remotely resembling those surrounding the death of Bijan Ghaisar, a young man fatally shot by U.S. Park Police in November just outside the District. Ghaisar was unarmed. He had no known mental illness. And to all appearances — a clear dash-cam video shows two Park Police officers opening fire at him — there was no reason police should have drawn their weapons, let alone pointed them at him, to say nothing of pulling the trigger.

More than four months have elapsed since the evening Ghaisar was shot, and the incident remains as unexplained as when it happened on Nov. 17 just off the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia. The Park Police have said next to nothing about Ghaisar’s death. They have offered the public, and Ghaisar’s family, no defense, no rationale and no remorse, nor even released the names of the two officers, who are on administrative leave. The FBI, which is handling the investigation, is closemouthed.

It beggars belief that a promising young man is gunned down by uniformed officers and the upshot of the event is month after month after month of official silence. At some point there must be accountability — but when?

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