Crime & Safety

VIDEO: Marchers Denounce Shooting of David Albrecht by Shoreline Police

Friends, family and supporters hold two-plus hour demonstration, questioning actions of Shoreline Police

Felix Albrecht sat alone in front of the Shoreline Police Station at 5:30 p.m. Thursday evening holding a sign with a photo of his brother, David Albrecht, who was .

Soon others joined him inluding his father, Viktor, who called the police that day asking for help with his apparently suicidal 22-year-old son who had cut himself and his girlfriend with a knife.

"I don't know why they killed him," said Viktor, who immigrated from Russia, with his family in the late 1980s, before David was born. "I don't understand. Why didn't they use a taser? They just shot him 10 times."

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Meanwhile, Tatiana, Albrecht's mother, shouted, "Why, why, why? They killed my son! Why, why, they kill my son!.

KIRO-TV obtained a surveillance video of the shooting seen here.

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Friends and other supporters including Cynthia Whetsell, a police brutality activist with the October 22 Coalition, a national organization that exposes police brutality showed up too.

The October 22 Coalition has members in the Seattle area and was involved in the protests of the killing of John T. Williams by Seattle Police. 

"In the last year, we've documented at least 30 people that have been involved in dying with law enforcement, just in Washington state," Whetsell said. 

Albrecht was shot multiple times by two Shoreline officers, whose identities have not been released, when he emerged from the home with a knife and shotgun taken from his brother's room. 

Throughout the peaceful but lively protest, the 40 protestors chanted, "Stop police brutality!," "Honk for justice," "Stop cop murderers!" and "Cops killed my friend!"

Some people driving by honked in support, others looked uncomfortably ahead, some drove on by and early on one man in a pickup stopped and started jawing with one of Albrecht's friends.

"Who do you call for help? Not 911! They might shoot you!," yelled Albrecht's friend Edgar Sanchez into a megaphone. "Shoot first, ask questions later? What!?"

The police station was closed during the protest and no officers were in the area during the protest in front of the station or when it moved to Aurora and 185th St. and later down toward 175th St. and back.


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