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by Sheryl Huggins Salomon onJanuary 23, 2011
VIDEO: The fatal shooting of a college football player by police leaves many looking for answers. See BET's take tonight (Sunday).
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May 29, 2009
Here we go again. Last night, an off-duty, black NYPD cop, 25-year-old Omar Edwards, was shot and killed by his white colleague, Officer Andrew Dunton.
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by Mary C. Curtis onJanuary 13, 2009
At this point, these depressingly familiar incidents seem to follow a script: bullets fired, accounts disputed, families grieving, lawsuits filed. And despite having reached a historic moment, black men can still catch a bullet from the police.
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