Maribo Hylton

In the autumn of 2020, a young Black man named Karon Hylton-Brown, aged 20, was riding a Revel moped through his Brightwood Park neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C. On the evening of October 23rd, his path crossed with officers from the Metropolitan Police Department. An attempted traffic stop, reportedly for not wearing a helmet while riding on the sidewalk, quickly escalated into a pursuit. The chase wound through the city streets for several blocks before Hylton-Brown rode into an alle ...