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Officer shoots, kills deaf man holding a pipe as neighbors yell ‘he can’t hear you’

by Brian Seay

As neighbors shouted “he’s deaf,” a police officer in Oklahoma City shot and killed a man who couldn’t hear commands to drop a metal pipe.

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Survey: Most officers believe high-profile police-involved shootings make their jobs harder

by Brian Seay

A survey of police officers in America found that 86 percent of them believe high-profile incidents involving officers and black people make police work harder, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday.

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