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New Details Emerge on Senseless Death in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin Jail
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2021
by Jayson Hawkins
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2021, page 34
Filed under:
Police--Excessive Force,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Racial Profiling.
Location:
Wisconsin.
by Jayson Hawkins
Recent public outrage over the needless killings of Black men at the hands of police has led to greater scrutiny of the many instances in which people of color die either while being arrested or while in police custody. The patterns of racism, casual violence, arrogance, and ...
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