Keeping peace, not waging war
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Oct 31, 2019
4 minutes
Another shocking, divisive police video pops up in the news. This one shows a 16-year-old boy getting shot in the back of the head as he runs from the officers about to arrest him.
And as he lays dying -- unconscious, bleeding to death -- a second officer cuffs the boy's hands behind his back, kicking him over on his stomach to do so, as though he were no more than a piece of hunted prey.
The shooting of Isiah Murrietta -Golding occurred in April 2017, in Fresno, Calif. The incident was reviewed and found to be justified. The official determination was that the officer feared
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