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No Indictment in Police Officer's Chokehold Death
Recent deaths of young black men by police have resulted in no indictments or public trials. Will police body cameras help restore confidence in the justice system?
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenRecent deaths of young black men by police have resulted in no indictments or public trials. Will police body cameras help restore confidence in the justice system?
Also, almost 200 nations have delegates in Peru to establish new rules for another climate-change summit next year in Paris. Is progress likely or could time and resources be spent more constructively?
Photo: (L) Washington, DC protest after the grand jury failed to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, photo by Joe Newman; (R) screen grab of police using chokehold on Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York.
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3 storiesOfficer who Shot Tamir Rice Was Regarded as Unstable
In the aftermath of non-indictments for police killings in Ferguson and New York, Attorney General Eric Holder's in Cleveland, Ohio today. He announced a consent decree that will lead to federal monitoring of lethal force by the police in that city.
Read the story7 minWho's Accountable for Police Killings?
In New York, the medical examiner called a videoed killing "homicide" by chokehold, but the grand jury did not return an indictment. In Ferguson, there was no video, and testimony conflicted, but there's been outrage nationwide because there was no indictment and no public trial.
Read the story33 minCause for Optimism at the UN Climate Talks in Lima, Peru?
This year's global temperatures will have been the highest since records began in 1880. Against that background, almost 200 nations are meeting in Peru , establishing strategy for another global climate-change summit next year in Paris. They got a recent boost when the US and China made an announcement on cutting carbon .
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