DC police release bodycam video of deadly
shooting involving Violence Interrupter
Justin Robinson
Fox 5 (Washington DC),
by
Christopher Harris
&
Fox 5 Dc Digital Team
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
9/10/2024 8:50:01 AM
WASHINGTON - Body camera footage released by D.C. police Monday shows the moment officers shot and killed Justin Robinson, a Violence Interrupter for the city, during an incident at a Southeast McDonald’s last week.
The footage was made public following community pressure for its release. While a statement from the Mayor’s Office initially indicated that Robinson’s next of kin did not want it shown, the family reversed their decision over the weekend.
At a vigil held on Friday, some of Robinson’s family members called for the "full release" of all body camera footage from officers on the scene. The incident began when police responded to a call about a car crash
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 9/10/2024 8:56:30 AM (No. 1793371)
Ok, so what the hell is a Violence Interrupter? Is this a new pop culture term that someone made up in the middle of the night and we are all supposed to pretend we use?
And while I dont know this guy and dont want to see his video, he looks like he just murdered a bus load of nuns.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Kate318 9/10/2024 9:03:51 AM (No. 1793377)
Wonder who got to the family with promises of fame and fortune?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 9/10/2024 9:07:32 AM (No. 1793380)
"Violence Interrupter".....with capitals???
what the heck?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
volksford 9/10/2024 9:13:21 AM (No. 1793386)
Looks like this violence interrupter should have become an internet influencer
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chillijilli 9/10/2024 9:22:43 AM (No. 1793391)
This, from Illinois.gov: Violence interrupters embed themselves within specific areas of communities experiencing elevated levels of violence and mediate emerging conflicts between groups and/or individuals to interrupt the cycle of violence.
Now you know. It's unclear however if VI's appoint themselves, choose where to embed, document their activities, or if they can operate outside of Illinois. To me, they sound like vigilantes.
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Doing a search on "violence interrupter in DC' yields a link to a website indicating that it is an initiative of the Office of the Attorney General of the District of Columbia. So, this guy appears to have worked for the Attorney General of DC (although it is not clear if he was an employee or a volunteer).
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/10/2024 9:35:34 AM (No. 1793404)
Clearly, if one gets involved in "interrupting violence," one might immediately and involuntarily become part of that violence. I looked up Violence Interrupter, read what was written, and still don't understand what these crazy people are trying to do. Violence interrupters seek to find peaceful alternatives to potentially violent situations. Okay, if that's true, why was a pistol on Justin Robinson's lap? Why did Justin try to grab a cop's weapon and get himself a fatal GSW? This story, beginning with violence interruption, does not make much sense. Just lock up violent criminals and crime will drop.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hazymac 9/10/2024 9:57:54 AM (No. 1793414)
"Hey, you have any other firearms, bro?" The cop said that to the Violence Interrupter after the VI had just been vented with what sounded like eleven rounds. VI wasn't listening anymore. He was Schroedinger's cat.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/10/2024 10:00:46 AM (No. 1793419)
His violence got interrupted.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 9/10/2024 10:52:18 AM (No. 1793446)
September 9, 2024
"From the body camera footage of an officer on the passenger side, MPD officials showed on the community briefing video Robinson was holding his own gun with his left hand while grabbing the officer's gun with his right hand."
Bye Bye
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/10/2024 11:14:47 AM (No. 1793453)
I watched the whole video. Typically, the deceased didn't follow the directives of the cops who were ready to defend themselves. Driving around with a piece in your lap and defying the cops isn't a qualification for a Violence Interrupter.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cold porridge 9/10/2024 11:21:18 AM (No. 1793454)
Well over 90% of the thugs that get shot have these things in common. 1. They don't and won't obey officer commands. 2. They have families that scream that they "din do nuffin." 3. Race baiters come out of the woodwork to back them up. 4. They seem to be raised not to respect the law, like the laws don't apply to them. Just look at all the democrat politicians of that same race and the high rate of corruption they are involved in.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 9/10/2024 12:54:13 PM (No. 1793490)
Re #5, so they can pur on a skin tight lycra suit with VI on the chest, maybe a cape, and then they can poke their noses into anyone and everyone's business??
Sounds like pure BS fraud to me.
Drugged out crazy with a gun, passed out in the drive thru? Didn't this happen in Atlanta a couple of years ago?
The guy grabbed a taser and got shot in the Atlanta mess, and a mob bur nb ed the restaurant soon after.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 9/10/2024 1:14:16 PM (No. 1793493)
Violence Interrupters another failed leftist and Quaker groups, supported by Biden.
Experience shows it has little to no benefit.
Pacifist hopey, dopey bull.
Been around since 2009 and no real examples of any success.
So this guy is passed out in a McD drive thru with a gun?
Sounds like a Violence Starter.
Piffill.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Highlander 9/10/2024 1:31:23 PM (No. 1793496)
Didn’t do too good interrupting the violence, did he?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/10/2024 1:38:04 PM (No. 1793499)
Was he going to interrupt some of that DC violence with his gun? Passed out in a McDonalds drive thru with a gun in your lap will not garner a lot of sympathy from people. The police do not know that he is a "Violence Interrupter" or a coked out meth dealer who wants to shoot a cop. His response was that of the coked out drug dealer. The family can (and will) cry all they want. It was the actions of the deceased which led to his death. As a Violence Interrupter, he should have known what the outcome of his actions would be.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Highlander 9/10/2024 2:22:28 PM (No. 1793511)
#11; It’s not a qualification for staying alive either.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hershey 9/10/2024 3:19:39 PM (No. 1793527)
So how is that new idea, don't send cops, send some social service idiot....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/10/2024 4:38:46 PM (No. 1793574)
Hold a gun in one hand, grab an officer's gun with the other, all that with the officer having just received a report that you are a felon, and ignore the officer's commands to stand down --- that behavior will get the felon shot every time.
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