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Virginia attorney general-elect Jason Miyares speaks during a press conference inside the Pocahontas Building in Richmond, Va. Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Virginia AG ends effort to prosecute Park Police officers

By Matthew Barakat - Associated Press

Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano announces during a news conference outside the county courthouse in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, that two U.S. Park Police officers have been indicted on manslaughter charges in the 2017 shooting death of an unarmed motorist who led officers on a stop-and-go chase after an accident, The charges against officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard come after years of agitation by the family of Bijan Ghaisar, 25, of McLean, and some local and federal political figures who saw the officers' conduct in the shooting as excessive. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)

Park Police officers indicted in shooting of unarmed driver

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

FILE - From left, Negeen Ghaisar, James Ghaisar, Kelly Ghaisar and Kouros Emami, family of Bijan Ghaisar walk outside federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Friday, March 6, 2020. Two U.S. Park Police officers say they gave “chance after chance” to a northern Virginia man in a stop-and-go police chase before firing 10 shots that killed him in 2017. Documents made public Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020 in a civil suit filed by the parents of 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar provide the first real insight into the thought process of the two officers who shot and killed Ghaisar after a chase on the George Washington Parkway. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)

Officers: We gave ‘chance after chance’ before 2017 shooting

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press