Body camera video released by police showed the deadly shooting of Justin Robinson on Sept. 1. Robinson is known for his work as a violence interrupter in a city program.
The video released Monday shows Robinson unconscious in his car after crashing into a McDonald’s on the 2500 block of Marion Barry Avenue SE. Robinson appeared to have a gun in his lap.
The footage released by police at the request of Robinson’s family shows video from body cameras worn by two officers who fired their weapons after first approaching the car and strategizing how to remove Robinson from it.
They’re heard discussing potential steps, including reaching through an open back window to unlock the front door so officers could grab the gun on Robinson’s lap. While officers were discussing what to do, they appear to notice Robinson moving.
“I got movement,” one of them can be heard saying. Officers approached the car, yelling at Robinson to keep his hands off his gun. They screamed at him to put his hands up and as Robinson rolled his window partially down, an officer pointed his gun through the window.
Police said Robinson grabbed the gun before shots were fired. He was shot 11 times.
Robinson was a violence interrupter with the D.C. Attorney General’s office.