Alexandria, VA Police Department Refuses to Share Basic Info with Public
Including incident reports, which shed light on police shootings
Why did Alexandria police officers kill Taft Sellars? The incident report details events leading to the death of the 30-year-old, a graduate of T.C. Williams High School. But the Alexandria Police Department refuses to release the document, which would be a standard public disclosure in many other states.
"It doesn't matter what type of case it is," said Ashley Hildebrandt, spokeswoman for the department. "As a policy, we don't release incident reports."
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