DISTRICT.
MARK SEGRAVES, NEWS 4.
>> ALL RIGHT, MARK.
THANK YOU.
FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THAT
COMMUNITY THERE’S ANGER AND
FRUSTRATION.
A YOUNG LIFE TRAGICALLY LOST.
AND FOR MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT
WHETHER IT HAD TO HAPPEN.
NEWS 4’S DERRICK WARD SPOKE TO
PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY W A
CONCERNED THAT EVEN IF A POLICE
OFFICER DID SOMETHING WRONG THEY
WOULDN’T BE HELD ACCOUNTSABLE.
>> Reporter: 18-YEAR-OLD DEON
KAY DIED AFTER BEING SHOT BY A
METROPOLITAN POLICE OFFICER IN
THIS PARKING LOT.
NEIGHBORS WHO LIVE IN THE AREA
HEARD THE GUNFIRE, NOT AN
UNCOMMON OCCURRENCE BUT THEY SAY
THE HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE
IMMEDIATELY AFTER, HELICOPTERS,
TOLD THEM THIS IS SOMETHING
DIFFERENT.
WITHIN HOURS OF THE INCIDENT A
MEMORIAL MARKED THE SPOT.
THE END OF A LIFE AND THE
BEGINNING OF AN INVESTIGATION.
HERE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT
SURROUNDS THE SPOT WHERE IT
HAPPENED IS ANGER AND LOTS OF
IT.
THERE’S ALSO FRUSTRATION.
>> THEY’RE NOT HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
AND THAT’S ALL WE’RE ASKING
FOR-S ACCOUNTABILITY.
>> Reporter: THOSE WHO KNEW KAY
CALLED HIM A GOOD KID WHO JUST
TURNED 18.
A FAMILIAR FACE AROUND ORANGE
STREET.
NOW, HE LIVED LESS THAN HALF A
MILE FROM WHERE HE DIED.
PART OF A COMMUNITY THAT ONE
RESIDENT SAYS GETS POLICED
DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER PARTS OF
THE CITY.
>> THEY COME IN AND THEY JUST DO
WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
>> Reporter: THEY ALSO WORRY
THAT EVERYONE GETS PAINTED WITH
A BROAD BRUSH.
THERE ARE TROUBLE SPOTS AND
PEOPLE WHO MAKE TROUBLE.
TEOPIAS ARE RARE ANYWHERE.
BUT ON THIS SIDE OF THINGS
THERE’S WORRY INCIDENTS LIKE
THIS TEND TO OVERSHAD OEFRG
ELSE.
>> IF YOU GO INTO THESE NANDS,
NOT ALL THESE KIDS ARE BAD, NOT
ALL THESE PEOPLE OUT HERE ARE
BAD.
NOT ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE OUT
HERE TO HURT YOU OR STOP YOU,
IMPEDE YOU FROM DOING YOUR JOB.
THEY’RE OUT HERE TRYING TO LIVE
AND SURVIVE JUST LIKE ANYBODY
ELSE.
>> Reporter: IN THE AFTERMATH
THE PROTESTS, THE THINGS WE’VE
SEEN IN THE WAKE OF THESE
INCIDENTS, FOLKS HERE EXPECT
THAT TOO BUT THEY ALSO EXPECT
SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
>> FINGER POINTING AND AND IF HE
DIDN’T DO THIS, HE DIDN’T DO
THAT.
NO, IT SHOULDN’T BE THAT.
IT SHOULD BE WHAT CAN WE DO TO