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Albert Jermaine Payton
United States · Aged 24 · Died 08/24/2012
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A police spokesman claimed that Metro officers "asked the gentleman to put down his knife several times, he failed to comply and went toward the officers at which time they shot him," during a domestic dispute call. Witnesses asserted that Payton had complied, and the police fatally shot him anyway.
Alleged responsible partyWashington Metropolitan Police DepartmentReported by the cited sources. “Alleged” is used pending verification.
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