Overview

• Vu’s attorney and community leaders said he died Friday night, nearly a year after the October 27, 2024 traffic stop.
• Body camera and bystander video show former Sgt. Joseph Gibson throwing Vu to the ground, and officials said Vu’s head struck the pavement.
• Vu was hospitalized with a neck fracture, an orbital fracture, and a brain bleed, and his health declined in the months that followed, according to his attorney.
• Oklahoma County prosecutors charged Gibson with aggravated assault and battery in December 2024, but Attorney General Gentner Drummond later dropped the case, and Gibson resigned in March.
• A federal lawsuit filed by Vu against Gibson, the attorney general, and Oklahoma City remains pending as a community leader says Vu had forgiven the officer and urges a formal apology to the family.