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Report in Kendrec McDade Case Reveals Police Misconduct

City News ServiceDecember 29, 2015

A new copy of an independent consultant’s report on the 2012 fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by Pasadena police officers includes more criticism of the way the city’s police department handled the investigation into the killing, it was reported last week. The latest version of the report on the shooting of Kendrec McDade includes several sections that the city previously tried to keep hidden from the public, The Los Angeles Times reported in an article posted on its website. A portion of the report says the two officers who shot McDade were never asked by department investigators whether

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Cleveland officer won’t face charges in killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice

Associated PressDecember 29, 2015

CLEVELAND (AP) — A grand jury declined to indict a white rookie police officer in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was shot to death while carrying what turned out to be a pellet gun, a prosecutor said Monday. Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said it was “indisputable” that the boy was drawing the weapon from his waistband when he was gunned down — either to hand it over to police or to show them that it wasn’t a real firearm. But McGinty said there was no way for the officers on the scene to know