Deaundre Drebo Philips, 24, was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer on the evening of January 26, 2017, near the Police Annex Building on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. According to the Atlanta Police Department, plainclothes detectives approached a parked car because they smelled marijuana; police say Philips tried to flee as the vehicle moved with Officer Yasim Abdulahad partially inside, and Abdulahad then fired, killing Philips. Police also reported a firearm on the car floorboard and that Philips had an outstanding warrant.

Philips’s family and their attorney dispute that account, saying he was a passenger who had gone to the annex with friends to get documents, that he was not aggressive, and that surveillance footage and other details do not match the police narrative. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation completed an inquiry and sent its findings to the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office by May 2017. By June 2020 the DA said pandemic-related delays had prevented presenting the case to a grand jury, and the family continued to press for transparency.

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