They said Sutton was the team’s most visible face, a presence so ubiquitous that he even had a nickname on the street - “Tattoo” - for his sleeves of ink. A half-dozen in the group said they feared and resented the officers, who they felt looked for minor offenses in order to stop and search them. The team was well known to the men who often gathered outside.
Sutton, a nine-year veteran of the force, was a member of the Crime Suppression Team, which conducts proactive patrols not tied to 911 calls, searches for suspects and recovers guns and drugs. Both men were fixtures on Kennedy Street, key actors in an increasingly tense drama between police and a group of young Black men who hang out on the block. When Hylton’s family first saw the police video, they weren’t surprised to hear Sutton call out Hylton’s first name. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) A fatal crash A memorial for Karon Hylton at Seventh and Kennedy streets NW, near where he was killed.
