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To whom it may concern:

US Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Civil Rights Division

Criminal SectionPHB

Washington, DC 20530

On October 29, 2010, at the Cedar Gardens Apartment complex located at 3810 Bonnie View

Dallas, TX 75216, Dallas Police Officer Mathew Tate, shot Tobias Mackey nine times from a short

distance, killing him. Tobias Mackey was non-violent, unarmed, and as such, posed no imminent threat

to Mathew Tate. Mathew Tate was Caucasian and Tobias Mackey was an African American. Witness

statements taken at the scene by independent investigators suggest that the shooting of Tobias Mackey

by Mathew Tate was an unprovoked excessive use of force. Of the nine shots that were fired that night

which resulted in the death of an unarmed innocent man, Xavier Collins, an eleven year old boy was

also wounded.

There are confirmed witness reports based in independent investigations carried out after the

shooting of Tobias Mackey by Mathew Tate, of an ongoing series of shake-downs ofdrug dealers

and gun runners by various Dallas Police Officers at the Cedar Gardens apartment complex located at

3810 Bonnie View Dallas, TX 75216. There is confirmation of several Found Evidence reports by

the Dallas Police, of which Mathew Tate was involved in, leading up to the shooting and death of

Tobias Mackey. There is also a verifiable unwarranted raid by the Dallas Police Department on an

apartment located inside of Cedar Gardens apartment complex, of which Mathew Tate was directly

involved in June of 2011. There is also a report, corroborated by witness statements, of the beating and

subsequent arrest of Tobias Mackey on October 11, 2010, at the Cedar Gardens apartment complex.

Taking all of these situations into account, there is little doubt that the excessive force that was

used against Tobias Mackey was pre-meditated, and based in previous interactions between Mathew

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Tate and other Dallas Police Officers who consistently worked this beat. The pre-meditated shooting

of Tobias Mackey by Mathew Tate, is not only a direct violation of civil rights and civil liberties, but

requires an indictment on Capital Murder charges of Dallas Police Officer Mathew Tate, as well as a

federal investigation by the FBI, into the existent culture of criminality within the Dallas Police

Department. This culture of criminality allowed for obvious complicity in the shooting and death of

an innocent African American man. Dallas Police Internal Affairs failed to properly investigate the

shooting death of Tobias Mackey, which has become common place within the Dallas Police

Department.

All of this information was gathered from the location of the incident and from the Dallas

Police website. Analysis of the shooting death of Tobias Mackey is confirmed and put forth on behalf

of Tobias mother, Sheila Lewis, mother of his children, Joann Mackey, and the people of Dallas, TX.

We demand that an investigation bring to light how Internal Affairs mishandled the shooting, and how

the Dallas Police sought to cover up incriminating evidence against Mathew Tate. The family is asking

that Mathew Tate be indicted on Murder Charges, Racketeering, Tampering with Evidence, and

Obstruction of Justice. We also demand that the United States Department of Justice initiate

immediately an investigation into the nature of the civil rights violations which occurred on October

29, 2010; of which the Dallas Police Department, the Dallas Internal Affairs Division, and the Dallas

City Attorneys Office are all directly involved.