joseph mann
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Sacramento, Calif., Police Department: They Are No Angels
While the shooting death of Stephon Clark has made national headlines over the last two weeks, it is not the first questionable shooting the Sacrament, Calif., Police Department has had. It is just one in a long list of many questionable incidents or activities the department has been linked to. Each and every time there…
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Newspaper Publishes Heartwarming Profile of Killer Cop, Points Finger at Black Lives Matter Activists
It is obvious why the Sacramento News and Review would write the story of John Tennis. The Dec. 14 feature story almost wrote itself. Tennis was a local high school athlete who joined the military to travel around the world in an Army paratrooper unit. After serving his country, Tennis returned to serve his hometown…
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Report: Sacramento, Calif., Police Department Moves to Fire Officer Involved in Shooting Death of Mentally Ill Black Man
On July 11, 2016, two police officers fired 18 shots at a mentally ill black man, who was armed with a knife with a 3.5-inch blade and “acting erratically,” within one minute of encountering him in a residential Sacramento, Calif., neighborhood. One of the officers involved in the shooting, Randy Lozoya, retired April 1, and…
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Lawyer: Calif. Officers Who Killed Fleeing Black Man Should Face Murder Charges
A lawyer for the family of a black man who was fleeing police called Monday for the two Sacramento, Calif., police officers who killed him to be charged with murder, Reuters reports. John Burris, the lawyer, told Reuters in a phone interview that dashcam video released last week suggests that the officers who shot and…
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New Video Reveals Sacramento, Calif., Police Tried to Run Over Black Man Before Fatally Shooting Him
According to recently released dashcam video from a July altercation, two Sacramento, Calif., police officers attempted to run over an African-American homeless man—twice—before they shot and killed him in a hail of bullets. The Sacramento Bee reports that one of the officers said, “[F—k] this guy” in the final minute before they shot Joseph Mann.…
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Joseph Mann's Family Upset at Release of Videos Showing Fatal Shooting by Calif. Police
Joseph Mann’s family wants justice after the Sacramento, Calif., Police Department released videos showing exactly how the fatal shooting of Mann occurred. Now they are saying that it’s clear police acted too soon, CBS Sacramento reports. The four different videos released by police appear to confirm that Joseph Mann, 50, was on the ground shortly after…