Joseph Alfonso Forrest

How they died

Deadly force

Forrest was the uncle of another Joseph Forrest, whom Baltimore police were coming to apprehend. The unarmed uncle ended up shot to death, the nephew taken into custody. Under pressure by the Baltimore Sun and writer David Simon the police were challenged on their "no names" (of shooters) policy, and admitted the uncle had been shot 12 times. Ultimately the shooting officer changed her expected testimony about the incident on the stand, clearing the nephew.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Joseph Alfonso Forrest, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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