Death outside DC9 club is ruled a homicide
    22 Dec. 2010 (Washington Post) - "In a
    statement Tuesday, the medical
    examiner's office said several factors
    contributed to the Oct. 15 death of Ali
    Ahmed Mohammed, 27, who allegedly
    threw at least one brick through the
    club's front window shortly after its
    2 a.m. closing. Police said Mohammed
was then chased by five men - four employees and a co-owner of
the bar - and died after a physical encounter with them at...More
The police killed my son. Why can't they
answer my questions?

14 November, 2010 | By Brook Hailu Beshah (Washington Post)
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    On the morning of Dec. 10, 2008, I said
    goodbye to my 19-year-old son, Hailu
    Brook, and left for work. It was the last
    time I would see him alive. The pain of
    what transpired that day will remain with
    me and my family until we die. But it has
    been made so much worse by the Fairfax
    County authorities' refusal to provide
    answers to our questions.

Arlington County and Fairfax police say that Hailu robbed a BB&T
bank branch on Old Dominion Drive in McLean after he left home that
morning. They say he then drove across the county line into Arlington,
crashed his car and fled on foot. Ultimately, three Fairfax officers who
pursued him fired some 20 times according to a witness quoted by
NBC Washington. At 10:30 p.m., many hours after the shooting, the
police finally came to our home to break the news to us that Hailu was
dead. It was originally reported that Hailu exchanged gunfire with the
police, but later we were told he was shot because he pointed a toy
gun at them.

And we are expected to take their word for all of this and go away.
But we cannot do that. There is still so much that does not make sense
to us. We owe it to our son to seek the truth...More
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About 100 friends and family of Ali Ahmed
Mohammed gathered outside the U.S. Attorney's
Office for the District on Monday to protest
prosecutors' decision to drop charges against the
five men accused of beating Mohammed outside
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Ethiopian outrage over beating death case eases -- for now
    11 January, 2011 (Final Call) - "Members of
    the large Ethiopian community here—both
    Muslims and Christians—breathed a sigh of
    relief just days before Christmas when the D.
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    the death of Ali Ahmed Mohammed, after a
    savage beating outside a nightclub Oct. 15,
was in fact a homicide....More
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DC9 case: Prosecutors won’t press charges
2 June, 2011 (Washington Post ) - After dropped charges of
murder and aggravated assault and a six-month investigation,
federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they will not pursue
criminal charges in the death of a man outside a D.C. nightclub in
October...More
Ethiopian Community Presses Prosecutor for Answers
16 January, 2011 (Washington City Paper ) - U.S. Attorney Ron
Machen met with leaders from the District's Ethiopian community
Sunday. Though various subjects came up, some who...More