10/8/14 Police Accountability Hearing at Howard U Business School

Seema Sadanandan with ACLU of the Nation’s Capital answers questions at a press conference at Howard Business School before the DC Council Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety hearing on police accountability October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Council Member Tommy Wells answers questions at a press conference at Howard Business School before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety hearing on police accountability October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Council Members Tommy Wells and Anita Bonds ready themselves before the hearing on police accountability at the Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

 Council Member Anita Bonds smiles before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety hearing at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

 

 Council Member David Grosso asks questions at a Judiciary and Public Safety Committee hearing held at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Council Member Kenyan McDuffie asks questions at a Judiciary and Public Safety Committee hearing at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

 Seema Sadanandan with ACLU of the Nation’s Capital testifies before the DC Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety at Howard University Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Former Public Defender Alec Karakatsanis testifies in a hearing of the DC Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

 
 NAACP-DC’s Patrice Sulton testifies in a hearing of the DC Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety held at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

 Jamal "DJOneluv" Muhammad of We Act Radio testifies before the DC Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 8^th at Howard Business School.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Council Member Kenyan McDuffie asks questions at a hearing of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Kymone Freeman of We Act Radio testifies before the DC Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety hearing October 8^th at Howard Business School.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Council Member David Grosso asks questions at a hearing of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

NAACP-DC’s Patrice Amandla Sulton, Esq. (foreground) and Seema Adananda of the ACLU of the Nation’s Capital testify before the DC Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety hearing October 8^th at Howard Business School.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

DC Council Members Tommy Wells, Anita Bonds and Kenyan McDuffie at a Judiciary and Public Safety Committee hearing on police accountability at Howard Business School October 8^th. /Photo by Nancy Shi

Salim Adofo of the United Black Front testifies before the DC Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 8^th.  

Green Party at large DC Council candidate Eugene Puryear looks on as Salim Adofo  testifies before the Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia

Second panel of witnesses, left to right, Charis Gofff of Greater Washington Urban League, public witness Michael Sims, Phil Fornaci of the Campaign Against Police Abuse, Eugene Puryear, DC Statehood Green Party candidate for at large DC Council and Salim Adofo of the National Black United Front testify before the DC Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Eugene Puryear testifies at the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Phil Fornaci of Campaign Against Police Abuse, testifies at the hearing of the Judiciary and Public Safety Committee at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia  

Council Members Tommy Wells, Anita Bonds and Kenyan McDuffie listen to members of the public testify before the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 8^th at the Howard Business School.   /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Second panel of witnesses, left to right, Charis Gofff of the Greater Washington Urban League, public witness Michael Sims, Phillip Fornaci of the Campaign Against Police Abuse, Eugene Puryear, DC Statehood Green Party candidate for at large Council and Salim Adolofo of the National Black United Front testify before the DC Council Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety October 8^th at the Howard Business School.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Council Member Tommy Wells responds to witness testimony at a hearing of the Committee on the Judiciary and Public at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia 

Several young people testify at the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety hearing at Howard Business School October 8^th.  /Photo by Nancy Shia