How One City Kept the Peace After a White Cop/Black Suspect Officer-Involved Shooting

By Dan Zimmerman

This article originally appeared at forcescience.org and is reprinted here with permission

Stripped to its bare bones, the incident had the ingredients of another racial firestorm: A white cop with a prior shooting on his record repeatedly fires at and kills a young black male, a former college football player, in full view of a crowd dispersing from a wedding at an African-American church on the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. In one newspaper’s terse assessment: “kindling in need only of a match.” Yet when these unfortunate circumstances recently befell Muskogee, OK, …read more

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