Karon Hylton-Brown’s mother and supporters again gathered at the Fourth District Station of Metropolitan Police Department Friday, demanding acknowledgement, answers and accountability. The 20-year-old died from crash injuries following a police chase last Friday in Brightwood Park.

While this station was the scene of large, chaotic protests earlier in the week, at first, Karen Hylton, Karon’s mother, and a handful of supporters were the only ones there. Karen was there to talk to police, get some answers, and hopefully find some peace.

“Come out here, say something to me…they killed my son, I don’t think I’m asking for a lot,” Karen Hylton, Karon’s mother said. “I want justice for Karon. I want the officers charged, I want the whole police station to be reorganized, I want the mayor to stand up and show the city why she was hired.”

However, no one came out to provide her answers.

“They’ve got a funeral to plan, she shouldn’t have to stand out here in the cold,” said Rhonda Hamilton, a mental health advocate who accompanied Karen. “She hasn’t even had a chance to shift gears and deal with all the realities of where she’s got to go with this. She deserves respect and answers and acknowledgement,”

“Why wouldn’t they want to come out and speak to a grieving mother?…Is she supposed to go home and go to sleep? It’s not fair.”

By around 10 p.m., dozens of protesters had arrived outside the station. Dozens more officers gathered nearby.

“We need accountability. We need truth for the family. We need to see that there’s going to be justice in Karon’s case, and as far as I’m concerned, this has got to be the last family that loses a family member as a result of police action,” said Tim Buffalo, a local chaplain who accompanied Karen Hylton to the station.

Police body camera footage, released Thursday, shows a police cruiser moving at increasing speed, closely following Hylton-Brown down an alley as he rides a Revel moped without a helmet. Hylton-Brown exits the alley on the 700 block of Kennedy Street NW and collides with a passenger vehicle driving on Kennedy Street.

Hylton-Brown was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries three days later, multiple outlets reported.  One of the officers involved, the driver of the cruiser, was later identified as Terence Sutton. (Sutton was also involved in an incident that is at the center of a lawsuit alleging a sexually abusive and unconstitutional search, though he was not a defendant in the suit.)

Hylton-Brown’s family and friends have said they believe the MPD officers who gave chase are responsible for his death. Officers tried to stop Hylton-Brown because he was not wearing a helmet, per a press release from the department. MPD policy does not allow officers to chase vehicles for a traffic stop unless “the suspect fleeing poses an immediate threat of death and serious bodily harm” to the police or the public, or unless there is probable cause to believe the person committed a violent felony.

“What the family saw, and what I viewed is not adequate — there’s a lot of questions that we have,” Buffalo said. “There are some fundamental questions that can be answered right now, like why there was a high-speed chase in the community when there’s a general order that specifically says that there shouldn’t be.”

“I’m suspicious of what’s happening, and why it’s happening,” said Louise Thundercloud-Hills of Rockville, Maryland and was also out to protest. “Why are they dicking around with the footage, when everyone sees what it is?…We deserve an answer, the family deserves an answer.”

WAMU/DCist updated this story to use Karon Hylton-Brown’s hyphenated last name at the request of his sister. It has also been updated to clarify the nature of the officer’s involvement in the lawsuit.