In an an interview with WDRB, Chief Paul Humphrey said the department had already “poured in several hours” reviewing body camera, documentation and other evidence in the case and that the report from the Office of Inspector General on Omari Cryer's death was “completely misleading.”

“Darnell is a good man!,” Tatahda Ferguson said in a press release sent by the law office of Dawn Elliott. “I have never felt unsafe or threatened by him and he has always been an incredible father to our children. It hurts my heart the way he’s being vilified. I am coming forward to try and do what’s right to clear his name.”