Dr. Terrence Walker agreed to another interview.
So did Andre Foster and his mother.
A fourth resident, Maya Ellis, learned about the review through local news and contacted investigators with an encounter she had never formally reported.
Three years earlier, Maya parked outside a luxury apartment building where she worked as a private chef. Holloway stopped her near the service entrance and asked whether she lived there.
She said no.
He asked what she was doing.
She showed him a text message from the client who hired her.
Holloway asked for identification anyway.
Maya complied because, in her words, “I wanted to finish cooking dinner, not become a story.”
No citation.
No report.
No complaint.
It existed only in memory until the pattern review.
Investigators searched dispatch logs and found the encounter.
A security guard had called about an unfamiliar person entering through the loading area.
That gave Holloway an objective reason to investigate.
The question was not whether he could approach Maya.
The question became how he treated explanations after the approach.
Comparator footage became unexpectedly important.
Riverton retained random body-camera footage for training, and several contacts involved Holloway questioning white residents under similar circumstances.
In one video, a white man loaded expensive landscaping equipment into a pickup behind a closed community center.
Holloway approached.
“Hey, boss, this your stuff?”
The man said yes.
Holloway asked what he was doing.
The man explained he worked maintenance.
Holloway said, “Got an ID or anything with the company?”
The man reached inside his jacket.
Holloway waited.
Verified.
Then left.
Forty-nine seconds.
Another video involved a white teenager pushing a high-end mountain bike through an alley near where a bicycle theft had been reported.
Holloway asked where he got it.
The boy said his father bought it.
Holloway asked his name.
Then said, “All right, just checking.”
No demand for proof.
No detention.
No call to the father.
The encounter lasted twenty-seven seconds.
Investigators watched it twice.
The similarity to Andre Foster’s complaint was difficult to ignore.
Same officer.
Same general property concern.
Similar expensive bicycle.
Teenagers of similar age.
Different escalation.
One comparison did not prove an entire mindset.
Several comparisons began forming a pattern.
Holloway’s attorney objected strongly when the department raised racial bias.
He argued investigators were cherry-picking encounters after a nationally embarrassing video.
That criticism had enough merit to require more systematic analysis.
Chief Warren hired an outside policing research group to review five years of Holloway’s discretionary contacts.
The researchers warned that raw racial percentages could mislead.
Patrol assignments differed.
Neighborhood demographics differed.
Calls for service differed.
Availability of body-camera footage differed.
They adjusted where possible.
The conclusion remained cautious.
Holloway initiated pedestrian and property-related investigative contacts with Black teenagers at a materially higher rate than comparable officers working the same zones.
Black teens also experienced longer average contacts before release when no citation or arrest resulted.
The analysis could not prove conscious racial animus.
It identified a disparity requiring explanation.
That language frustrated activists who wanted certainty.