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People rallied in front of the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh on Thursday, protesting the death of 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr.

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'Why Are They Shooting?' E. Pittsburgh Enraged Over Police Killing Of Black Teen

3:19pm June 21, 2018

by Amy Held

Antwon Rose Jr., 17, was riding in a car suspected of having been used in an earlier shooting. He ran after police stopped the vehicle and was shot three times by an East Pittsburgh police officer.

Black Lives Matter protesters stage a demonstration in front of the offices of Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert on April 4 in Sacramento, Calif. Protesters rallied to demand justice for Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was sh

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Official Autopsy Of Stephon Clark, Killed By Police, Contradicts Family Autopsy

3:37pm May 02, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

An unarmed black man was killed by Sacramento police in March. The coroner says he was shot seven times, three times in the back. A private autopsy found he was shot eight times, mostly in the back.

Hundreds of BLM protesters marched through the streets of Sacramento on March 30 demanding justice for Stephon Clark, who was shot and killed by Sacramento police on March 18. An independent autopsy commissioned by the Clark family revealed that Stephon C

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After Stephon Clark Shooting, Questions Remain About Police Use Of Force

10:47pm April 04, 2018

by Martin Kaste

After Stephon Clark's death in Sacramento, many people are wondering whether anything has really changed in the way police use deadly force since Michael Brown was shot and killed in Ferguson, Mo.

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at a civics event in January in Seattle. Sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent about police shootings Monday.

Police Shootings Stir Outrage Among Some, But Not The Supreme Court

9:57am April 03, 2018

by Nina Totenberg

The Supreme Court sided with police on Monday when it tossed out a lawsuit against a policeman after he shot a woman in her own front yard.

A still from police body camera footage of the officer-involved shooting of 22-year-old Stephon Clark on Sunday in Sacramento.

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Video Shows Sacramento Police Shooting Unarmed Black Man In Grandparents' Backyard

3:21pm March 22, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Body camera footage shows two officers firing about 20 shots at Stephon Clark, then waiting five minutes without giving aid. The officers had responded to a 911 call of a man breaking car windows.

The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases

5:38pm March 09, 2018

A culture of racism can infect us all. On this week's radio show, we discuss the implicit biases we carry that have been forged by the society around us.

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Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart in Robbins, Ill., on Nov. 19, 2013. Dart says many suburban departments have a hard time just getting officers to patrol the town.

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What Happens When Suburban Police Departments Don't Have Enough Money?

6:39pm January 22, 2018

by Patrick Smith

Small police departments struggling with high crime and low budgets tend to pay fast-food wages, may employ officers with troubled pasts and can miss out on opportunities to learn from mistakes.

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Former police officer Michael Slager, seen during his state murder trial last year in Charleston, S.C., which ended in a hung jury.

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Former S.C. Officer Who Killed Walter Scott Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

3:39pm December 07, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

A federal judge ruled Michael Slager committed second-degree murder and obstructed justice in his 2015 shooting of Scott, an unarmed black man. Slager pleaded guilty to violating Scott's civil rights.

Protesters gather outside the courthouse in downtown St. Louis on Friday, after a judge found a white former St. Louis police officer, Jason Stockley, not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a black man, Anthony Lamar Smith, who was shot after a

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Former St. Louis Police Officer Is Acquitted Of Murder In Anthony Lamar Smith Case

2:10pm September 15, 2017

by Bill Chappell

"No one promised a rose garden, and this surely is not one," Judge Timothy Wilson wrote in his ruling on the 2011 killing. Prosecutors had accused Jason Stockley of planting a gun.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown briefs the media about a shooting at Dallas Police headquarters on June 15, 2015.

'Called To Rise': Dallas Police Chief On Overcoming Racial Division

7:39pm June 06, 2017

by Samantha Raphelson

Last year, Dallas Police Chief David Brown was the face of leadership after a gunman killed five police officers during a protest. He has since retired from the force and wrote a book about his life.

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