In observing the two-year anniversary of Marqueese Alston's police-related death, his mother has taken her crusade against the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) to another level with a $100 million wrongful-death lawsuit.

To this day, much to the chagrin of Alston's family and local activists, MPD hasn't released their names or body camera footage from the evening in question.

"It's been two years since police killed my son and they still haven't publicly released the bodycam footage or got their story straight about what happened that night," Kenithia Alston, Marqueese's mother, said Friday.

Days before the council unanimously passed emergency legislation mandating the immediate release of body camera footage in excessive force cases, Alston spoke before a large crowd group of go-go fans dancing alongside a parade float making its way downtown to what had been renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza.

On Sunday, a Black Lives Matter DC press statement — released after the group painted "Defund the Police" to the end of the now-world-famous mural — evoked the legacy of Alston and other Black men killed during encounters with MPD.