Facebook Live Shooting

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer De’Joure Mercer, who fatally shot and killed Dreasjon Reed in May 2020, has dropped his complaint against the NFL, his lawyers say. The complaint was filed in June 2021 in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Indiana. It said the NFL’s social media posts and campaign including […]

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis family is moving forward with a civil rights lawsuit against the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. Thursday marks one year since the death of Dreasjon Reed, and a federal lawsuit in Indianapolis has its next hearing on May 19. Last May 6, Reed led police on a chase, which he shared on Facebook Live. […]

New details obtained by Call 6 Investigates in the shooting death of Dreasjon Reed by an IMPD officer last month show that the officer-involved fired his gun more than 10 times and the gun found next to Reed’s body was also fired twice.

As new video is released in the Dreasjon Reed case, lawyers who represent his family continue to cast doubt on what IMPD claims happened during that fatal exchange.

The family of Dreasjon Reed asked a judge to release the names of the officers directly and indirectly involved in his death

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer has been disciplined for comments he made that were captured on a Facebook Live video after a deadly officer-involved shooting last week. The comments were made following the fatal shooting of Dreasjon Reed, 21, by an IMPD officer on May 6. Reed was streaming live on Facebook […]