The senator from Virginia is still seeking answers in the 2017 Park Police shooting of the unarmed motorist.
Sen. Mark R. Warner on Wednesday placed a hold on a nominee for a top Interior Department post as a protest of what he called the department’s continued refusal to answer his questions about the fatal shooting of motorist Bijan Ghaisar by two U.S. Park Police officers in 2017.
Interior Department spokesman Nicholas R. Goodwin on Wednesday evening said the department had responded to Warner’s questions.In February, Warner voted against an Interior nominee for deputy secretary, who was approved anyway. He said then that he would “strongly consider placing a hold on Interior nominees moving forward until I receive adequate responses to my questions” about the Park Police handling of the case.
Warner said he wanted copies of the Park Police policies on use of force and vehicular pursuit, both of which were changed after the Ghaisar shooting, and to know the status of the officers. He also wanted to know whether the Park Police had begun an internal affairs inquiry or done an “after-action review” of the slaying.The Interior Department issued an identical response Wednesday to one it provided in February.
The Park Police took over the investigation for the first three days, then handed it to the FBI. The civil rights division of the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington took two years to consider the case, then declined to file charges.
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