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    Dahleen Glanton: Latest cop shooting in Texas makes it clear: African Americans are right to fear the police

    by Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune Oct 16, 2019 4 minutes

    If there was any doubt that African Americans are in imminent danger of the police, the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson should make it clear.

    If a video showing a police officer murder Laquan McDonald on a Chicago street did not convince you that black people are unjustly being gunned down by police, then the blatant shooting of a young woman playing video games with her nephew in her own home must force you to reconsider.

    Long before McDonald or Jefferson, there was Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old black woman who was shot and killed by an off-duty Chicago police detective while

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