A police report, which The Informer received soon after the release of MPD’s statement, said at least a dozen officers arrived at the scene and recovered a white Ford E-150. Some of those officers, Williams said, went to great lengths to stop him from recording, even threatening to arrest him.
“For them just to have a body hanging and not say s— to the community about it was crazy,” Williams told The Informer. “There were many, many people out there. Parents, grandparents, and children, and they couldn’t understand what was going on.”
Days after his footage attracted nearly 9,000 views on YouTube, Williams continues to question why MPD didn’t immediately publicize the gruesome discovery.
“The only thing I did see was some little flash reports…that just said police [were] over the scene,” Williams said. “They just made no issue that there was a body hanging in broad daylight at 1:30 p.m. They tried to cover it up… and then nothing came out after that.”
They were confused whether they should mock them, swipe it under the rug or instrumentalise it to gain more power.
Was he in their custody right before this?
Per MPD’s statement, officers found the 19-year-old Latino man unconscious and not breathing while hanging from a tree limb. The adult adolescent, who hasn’t been identified, was pronounced dead on the scene after attempts by D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services to revive him.
