The family of a man who died in Alexandria Police Department custody last summer is asking for accountability, as the city’s Independent Community Policing Review Board has taken up the case.
The family of Allan Tucker II wants the two arresting officers and their supervisor charged with criminal negligence in his Aug. 15, 2025 death. The 32-year-old Tucker was arrested for public intoxication in the hallway of his apartment complex home and later died in police custody while waiting 35 to 45 minutes in the back of an APD cruiser parked in the sally port of the Alexandria jail.
On Monday (June 29), the board received a report from Ameratu Kamara, the city’s independent policing auditor, determining that APD officers violated performance standards and body camera directives and disregarded the Tucker’s multiple requests to be taken to the hospital. More than a dozen of Tucker’s family members and friends spoke on his behalf…