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In Chicago, outrage and grief over police shooting of boy | Afro

By DON BABWIN and SARA BURNETT CHICAGO (AP) — Viewers reacted with a mix of outrage and grief to newly released bodycam video that showed a Chicago police officer fatally shoot a 13-year-old last month less than a second after the boy appeared to drop a handgun, turn toward the officer and begin raising his […]

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