Press Room

"Kawaski Trawick's family has waited five years and two administrations, only to be denied any semblance of justice. This is a shameful decision stemming from a cynical system and strategy across multiple mayors and commissioners to shield law enforcement from accountability. Delaying this case for years and blaming that delay on ultimate inaction has been an attempt to deliberately sabotage the process and call it unfortunate. It’s a Trumpian tactic of delaying justice in order to deny it, and it’s a sign of the city's unwillingness to allow for basic accountability. "Kawaski Trawick was killed by police while in his home and experiencing a mental health crisis. Armed police should never have been the city’s response, but on arrival, they escalated the incident, with tragic results. Five years later, the city continues to try to answer our mental health crisis with a law enforcement-led response. Win Rozario’s death last month after calling for help amid his own mental health crisis shows that the city has learned nothing from this tragedy, and with the mayor refusing to even say his name, and any attempts to now express sympathy or solidarity would be just another instance of being far too late."