On September 1st, 2024, DC police responded to a McDonald's drive-thru after a vehicle crashed into the building. Witnesses reported the suspect had been asleep for nearly an hour with a firearm in his lap. A second driver was also found asleep behind him. As officers formed a tactical perimeter, they discovered the suspect, later identified as 25-year-old Justin Robinson, a violence interrupter with the Cure the Streets program, was unresponsive inside a white Mercedes with the weapon clearly visible. Officers attempted to plan a safe extraction, but Robinson awoke and appeared to reach for the firearm. Despite multiple warnings, his actions led officers to open fire. EMS attempted life-saving efforts, but Robinson was pronounced dead at the scene. The incident sparked community demonstrations with tensions heightened by Robinson's past criminal history and recent role in violence prevention. The US Attorney's Office later ruled there was insufficient evidence to charge the officers, who returned to duty. 610 Bravo. Yeah. Send me additional units to the McDonald's. Suspect has a firearm in his lap. Hey, for you guys for you guys, I have two other vehicles right there. Look at the other vehicle. I have a white Mercedes sedan. No. White Mercedes. No. Hey, get her out of the car. Yeah. Get out. Get out. You're too drunk to drive. Get out of the car and walk. Now. I'm not going to repeat myself. Get out of the car and walk. Now. This is not a game. It's okay. You have to walk. I'm not going Ma'am, I'm working right now. Get out of the car. I was If you don't get out, I'm ripping you out of the car. No, you're not. I'm going to count down. Three, two, get out of the car. There's a man in this car with a gun. I need you to get out of the car now. Miss, I do not care what you're doing. Get out of the car. care. No, I'm not. You are drunk. I'm not going to arrest you for DUI. Miss, I've been sitting here for 30 minutes. Miss. I live right up the street. I live I know. I need you to get out of this car. at home. I don't care. I'm a SBO. I serve for you every day. Don't do this to Not to listen to me. Do you understand to listen. You are too drunk to listen. Put your car in reverse. Go that way. the side of the building. Units responding, turn your lights and sirens off, please. Lights and sirens off. Guys, come around onto the pay here section of McDonald's, past the drive-thru, at the very start of the drive-thru. I need one vehicle to come block the front of this vehicle. I need another one to come up block the back of the vehicle. here section of McDonald's Yo. Yo. You got to go. You got to go. at the very start of the drive-thru. Go that way. No, go that way. Go. Leave. block the front of this vehicle. I need another one to come up block the back of the vehicle. Hey, bring your car. Bring your cruiser. I need one parked here up front. I need one behind. Get your car. Get your car. Get your car. Block here. I need a car here. I need a car in the back. Hey, we're good for now. Homie hasn't moved at all. Homie up. Stand by. Where's the front cruiser? Sorry, I couldn't hear you in the car. It's okay. Everyone's excited. Hey, if you're here, I'm coming up front. Hey, like 2 in away. Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. Everybody watch crossfire. If you are not up here at least to the back door, it's not your gunfight. Hey, these windows are open. Yo. Windows open. So, what we need is we need we need deadly coverage and we need an extraction. Okay? No. Is it vehicle? Is it open? It looks like the doors are unlocked, but I haven't checked yet. I can reach in and unlock the door. Crossfire, but Hey, so hey guys, hey, listen, if you're aiming like down, okay? Hold on. Let's just Let's just see what we got. Thank you. Well, stand by to be guided by an official. All right, stand by. All right. Hey, turn her around. Leave, turn around. Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. Turn around. I don't even have enough room to move her shield in there. It It looks like it is. How slowly can you keep on walking? Now I'm going to tell him to back back off. Back off. Get somebody with the shield. We We have a Yo. So sergeant. Move it. I got movement. Get your hand off the gun. Sir. Put your hands up. HANDS UP. HANDS UP. HANDS UP. HANDS UP. HANDS UP. GET BACK. GET YOUR HAND OFF THE GUN. HANDS UP. HANDS UP. HANDS UP. GET YOUR HAND OFF THE GUN. HANDS UP. HANDS UP. I'LL SHOOT YOU. SHOOT HIM. SHOOT STOP. HANDS UP. GET YOUR HAND OFF THE GUN. HANDS UP. WITH YOUR HANDS UP. HANDS UP. HANDS UP. HANDS UP. HEY, FIREARMS ARE SECURED. HEY. HEY, we have our ON THE FIREARM. GOT THE FIREARM? FIREARM RECOVERED. MOVE BACK. MOVE BACK. BACK. BACK. BACK. BACK. BACK. HEY, SECURE THE BAR. NO. NO. BACK TO THE CAR. Back to the car. No. Back to the car. No, we got to treat him, bro. Hey, firearm is safe out of the way. Hey, you have any other firearms, bro? All right. Back. Back. Back. Hey. Hey. Hey. Fire. Fire. Fire. Hey, somebody grab a kit. Grab a tac kit. Grab a tac kit. Grab a I'm coming. I'm I'm coming. I'm coming. Adult male. Hey. At least one here. Hey, officer. Yeah, we got two. Is anyone injured? Is he losing a No blood. Anybody got shoes? Hey. Hey, we got him, bro. Give him a blood transfusion. All right. You want to take over compressions? So, go over the air. Make sure DFS is coming out. You Thanks, buddy. 703 The ambulance took it out of the vehicle. Hey, somebody secure the firearm, please. Just stay on for a second, but don't say anything, all right? Just say what's up. Come and tell me what you saw. Go ahead. Hi, sir. You okay? Fantastic. Despite the efforts of DC Fire and EMS, the driver was pronounced dead on the scene. While DFS recovered the firearm that the suspect had in his possession, the driver was later identified as 25-year-old Justin Robinson. A violence interrupter is with Cure the Streets program, a public safety program launched by the DC Attorney General's office, which aims to reduce gun violence resulting from simple violence during a press conference on September 10th. Regarding the incident, DC Police Chief Pamela Smith spoke on the case. The city has has been very instrumental in working with our violence interrupters. I think the programs have been certainly instrumental in helping us mediate issues and and and and I'll say conflict resolution, conflict that occurs within our our district. And and and the violence interrupters have been very instrumental in supporting us, I believe, with the the crime that reduction that you have seen across the District of Columbia. Cure the Streets typically partners with formerly incarcerated people to use their influence to intervene in neighborhood disputes. Robinson was one of incarcerated people, according to the Washington Post. Robinson played an integral role in the 2016 murder of Demetrius Medley. On the day of the funeral for Robinson's older brother himself, a victim of a gun murder. Robinson had a tense exchange with Medley, who was from a rival neighborhood. Robinson then told another man from his neighborhood, Kevin Grover, to smoke him. If he came back minutes later, Grover shot Medley twice in the chest. Robinson plead guilty in 2018 to assault with intent to kill and served 5 years in federal prison. He was released in 2022, and by April of 2024, he was working with the Cure the Streets program. He became well-known in the DC community as a positive role model for kids and frequented outreach events with Cure the Streets. When did I decide to tell the younger people in the community members period that there's more to life than just going to go grab a gun and do your job and come out here and kill us? Robinson's death came on the heels of the arrest of DC Councilmember Trayon White Sr. who was accused of accepting bribes over contracts involving violence interruption. Residents were also on edge awaiting the sentencing of two DC police officers. One found guilty of second-degree murder and the other for obstruction of justice. On September 10th, Robinson's family agreed to release the body cam footage to the public. And that night around 100 demonstrators gathered at the McDonald's where Robinson was shot. The demonstrations were largely peaceful, though at one point police arrested several people for throwing bottles and rocks at officers. On January 15th, 2025, the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced that there was insufficient evidence to pursue charges against the two officers who shot Robinson, and both returned to full active duty. On our second video, we have a guy asleep in McDonald's with a gun in his lap. And this is a very tense situation because there's other people in the drive-thru, which the officer actually got into an argument with another person in the drive-thru. But he he was smart enough to say, "You know what? I don't have to deal with that. Let me deal with this." Cuz this is a much more dangerous situation. And one thing to keep in mind is some of the windows of the vehicle were open. But that may create a more dangerous situation. Because if the officer is reaching in and grabbing this gun, you don't know what the suspect might do. And if the other officers on location are forced to fire, that puts that officer in a dangerous situation. And the other officers surrounding in a dangerous situation. Whereas the officers are planning and being strategic, they're trying to see if they can get this gun. But the male begins to wake up. So at this point, they have to yell to the male to drop the gun. And remember, when you're waking up, a lot of people are disoriented. So the male didn't know where he was when he went to sleep. It was nothing around, probably. But then when he wakes up, all these police officers around him and he has guns pointed at him. However, he still shouldn't have grabbed that gun. Cuz that is what forced the officers to fire. They had no choice, in my opinion.