Dasan “DJ” Jones

How they died

Deadly force

Dasan Jones's mother filed her first petition for a protective order against Baltimore Police Officer Eric Banks Jr. on June 25, but Anne Arundel County District Court Judge Ronald Karasic denied that request. A judge granted a second petition, however, at a 3 p.m. hearing. Two hours later, Anne Arundel County police officers found Dasan's body "in a hole in the wall with a white covering leaning on it," upstairs in a loft in his stepfather's home. He was strangled. County police charged Banks with murder and child abuse.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Dasan “DJ” Jones, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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