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Video Shows Texas Officer Using Stun Gun On Handcuffed Man

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Posted on May 18, 2017 · A video leaked to a television station shows a white Dallas-area police sergeant using a stun gun on a handcuffed black suspect, returning the same police department to the spotlight just weeks after a white officer was charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

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Family Sues Texas Officer, Department In 15-year-old’s Death

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Posted on May 8, 2017 · The family of a black 15-year-old shot and killed by a white suburban Dallas police officer has sued the officer and his department, accusing the department of inadequately training the officer and ignoring warning signs that he was prone to erratic behavior.

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Officer Who Fatally Shot Teen Had Once Been Suspended

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Posted on May 5, 2017 · Records show that a white Texas police officer who was fired for fatally shooting a black teenager was briefly suspended in 2013 following a complaint about his conduct while serving as a witness in a drunken-driving case.

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Dallas Suburb Faces Racial Backlash After Shooting

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Posted on May 4, 2017 · The Dallas suburb where a white police officer shot and killed a black teenager as he left a party has a population that's just 20 percent white but a police department that's 80 percent white.

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Police Chief Fires Officer Who Shot And Killed Black Texas Teenager

Doreen McAllister, NPR

Posted on May 3, 2017 · Balch Springs Police Chief Jonathan Haber has dimissed the police officer who shot and killed Jordan Edwards, 15, while he was riding in a car that was leaving a house party on Saturday.

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Chief: Car Driving Away When Officer Fatally Shot Texas Teen

NOMAAN MERCHANT, AP

Posted on May 2, 2017 · A suburban Dallas police chief acknowledged that an officer who fatally shot a black 15-year-old in a moving vehicle fired as the car was driving away — not as it reversed toward officers, as the department had previously asserted.

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Posted on May 4, 2018 · Seven months after Hurricane Maria, thousands of people in the Puerto Rican mountains are still waiting for the lights to come back on. Why is power restoration for the last two percent so difficult?

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WATCH: Deputy Never Entered Building During Florida School Massacre

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Posted on March 15, 2018 · Police and school officials had resisted the release, saying it was evidence in an active investigation

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Posted on August 10, 2017 · The policeman survived an 18-foot fall.

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