Posted by Alaska Police on 6/24/2025, 5:19 pm, in reply to "The Police Shooting that Boston Forgot"
The fatal Anchorage police shooting of a Black man in 2019 is under renewed scrutiny after the public release of police dashcam footage by a lawyer representing the man’s family in a wrongful death lawsuit.
Three Anchorage police officers shot and killed Bishar Hassan(photo below), a 31-year-old Somali American, on April 1, 2019 while investigating a report of a man with a gun walking into traffic.
