Arkansas senators say Clinton airport exec. killed by ATF with no bodycam: 'Violation of its own policy'

Both U.S. senators from Arkansas are pushing for answers from the Justice Department astir a national instrumentality enforcement hunt warrant execution past period that ended with an airdrome enforcement changeable dead.

Sens. Tom Cotton and John Boozman are seeking answers successful the decease of Bryan Malinowski, the enforcement manager of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport successful Little Rock. 

Malinowski was changeable connected March 19 erstwhile agents with the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) attempted to service a hunt warrant astatine his home. Malinowski, 53, was wounded during a gunfire speech with agents and died days later, the ATF said. 

1 DEAD, 9 INJURED IN ARKANSAS BLOCK PARTY SHOOTING

Bryan Malinowski, the erstwhile  executive manager astatine the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, was changeable and killed erstwhile national agents were serving a hunt warrant astatine his Little Rock, Arkansas home.  ( Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport)

"The Department of Justice confirmed to america past nighttime that the ATF agents progressive successful the execution of a hunt warrant of the location of Bryan Malinowski weren’t wearing assemblage cameras," Cotton and Boozman said successful a associated statement. "We volition proceed to property the Department to explicate however this usurpation of its ain argumentation could’ve happened and to disclose the afloat circumstances of this tragedy."

"Mr. Malinowski’s household and the nationalist person a close to a afloat accounting of the facts," the Republican lawmakers added. 

Bud Cummins, the lawyer for the Malinowski family, noted that the ATF adopted a argumentation successful 2022 that requires the usage of assemblage cameras during the execution of hunt warrants. 

"This argumentation provides parameters for the usage of BWCs [body-worn cameras] by TFOs [task unit officers] to the grade that a authorities oregon section instrumentality enforcement bureau requires their usage by its officers during national task unit operations," states a Department of Justice memo dated June 2, 2022.

Cummins said the argumentation was created successful effect to the shooting of Breonna Taylor, the Louisville, Kentucky EMT idiosyncratic who was killed arsenic officers attempted to execute a hunt warrant.

"It is astounding for ATF to present assertion they simply ignored this wide policy. It evidently raises much questions than it answers," Cummins told Fox News Digital.

Bill Walker, Chairman of the Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission, Bryan Malinowski, Executive Director of the Clinton National Airport, Patrick Schueck, Vice Chairman of the Commission, and Comissioner Harold Betton, laughter during a Feb. 27 meeting.  (Stephen Swofford/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

As agents were attempting to service the warrant successful the aboriginal greeting hours, Malinowski allegedly opened fire. An cause was changeable and sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Malinowski was changeable successful the caput by returning gunfire and died 2 days later. 

He was nether probe for allegedly selling firearms without a license, immoderate of which were utilized successful crimes, authorities said. Between May 2021 and Feb. 27, 2024, Malinowski allegedly purchased much than 150 guns, which helium past allegedly resold. 

Images taken by an undercover ATF cause of Bryan Malinowski selling firearms astatine a weapon amusement successful Arkansas (Justice Department)

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Malinowski purchased the firearms legally and allegedly checked a container connected acquisition forms that indicated the firearms were for him. However, helium allegedly resold the weapons astatine weapon shows wherever helium acted arsenic a vendor. 

"At worst, Bryan Malinowski, a weapon proprietor and weapon enthusiast, stood accused of making backstage firearm income to a idiosyncratic who whitethorn not person been legally entitled to acquisition the guns," Malinowski's household said days aft helium died. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the ATF and Justice Department.