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Black DA to decide charges against White Wisconsin officer

Courier Newsroom - April 12, 2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The story has played out the same way in Ferguson, Missouri, New York City and Milwaukee. A White police officer...

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Family, friends mourn young Wisconsin man shot by police

Courier Newsroom - March 15, 2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Friends and family remembered a 19-year-old biracial Wisconsin man fatally shot by police as a friendly, funny person who liked...

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Madison police response to shooting contrasts with Ferguson

Courier Newsroom - March 9, 2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed Black man, the police chief of Wisconsin's capital city was praying...

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Madison police chief: White officer shoots and kills unarmed Black 19-year-old

Courier Newsroom - March 7, 2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A 19-year-old Black man who died after being shot by a White police officer was unarmed, the Madison police chief...

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