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by Genetta M. Adams onMarch 19, 2012
If the roles were reversed, one wonders if a black teen could have killed and claimed self-defense.
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Atlantic blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates says that Florida's Sanford Police Department needs assistance from outside investigators because it has failed to arrest the neighborhood-watch captain in the shooting death of an unarmed 17-year-old.
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by Sheryl Huggins Salomon onMarch 17, 2012
Updated: Hear calls from the shooter and frantic neighbors, plus cries for help before shots were fired.
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