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Redel Jones Protests, and Racial Bias in Police Shootings
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Tuesday after the commission ruled that the killing last summer of a black woman named Redel Jones did not violate the department’s deadly force policy.
By Madeleine Brand • • 50m ListenHundreds of protesters gathered outside a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Tuesday. The commission ruled that the killing last summer of a black woman named Redel Jones did not violate the department’s deadly force policy. We get a reaction from Congresswoman Karen Bass.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Tuesday after the commission ruled that the killing of a black woman named Redel Jones did not violate the department’s deadly force policy. Jones was shot by an officer in an alley in Baldwin Hills after she reportedly robbed a South LA pharmacy.
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