“No one is free until we ALL are free.”-MLK
We will add victims of other races who are victims of police brutality as well on this page, because we honestly feel that our justice system needs to be perfected overall. The story of John Albers matters just as much as all the other stories.
The killing of John Albers by Clayton Jenison, in the driveway of Albers’s family home in a suburb of Kansas City, was captured by two police dash cameras and a Ring home security camera across the street. Jenison claimed that he thought Albers, whose friends called police because they believed he was suicidal, was going to run him over, though the videos showed Jenison was never in the van’s path. It was not clear, until the shooting started, that Albers ever knew Jenison was outside the family’s home in the prosperous suburb of Johnson County, Kan. As is often the case in officer-involved shootings, Jenison’s name was not released initially — though it eventually became public through a wrongful-death lawsuit by the Albers family — and officials withheld all investigative reports about the killing. He was placed on administrative leave as a criminal investigation was launched. In February 2018, the Johnson County district attorney announced that the officer would not be charged and that the slaying was justifiable. At the same time, District Attorney Steve Howe announced that the officer had resigned before any administrative action could be taken.Overland Park officials did not disclose the following month that they paid a severance package in March 2018 to Jenison totaling more than $81,000, though records show his salary was roughly $46,000. City spokesman Sean Reilly said Thursday that “in the best interest of the community,” the city negotiated an agreement with Jenison “which resulted in his voluntary resignation,” to include $8,000 in pay, $3,040 in unused vacation and comp time, and a $70,000 severance payment.
Funeral for Justice 