Eye-Witness Accounts So Varying That Police Ask for FBI’s Help in Officer-Involved Shooting Death

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Eye-witness accounts can be wildly different, causing a headache for investigators. Take a St. Louis police-involved shooting that killed a young black man in April. Police interviewed about 12 witnesses, half of whom said they saw the shooting, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reports. Some said the young man, Cary Ball, had…

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Charleston NAACP Asks Justice Department to Probe Excessive Force Against Black Men

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Charleston civil rights supporters are calling for an investigation into a “troubling and outrageous trend” lethal police force against black men, the Post and Courier reports. Don Scott, president of the city’s NAACP, said Saturday’s shooting of a black man is one of four police-involved shootings since March 2012. Scott said officers…

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