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Crazy story! Authorities say the police officer who shot an unarmed African-American man to death in the Atlanta area also had a Taser on him.   It happened overnight when the white officer responded to a call about a man who was acting deranged, knocking on doors at an apartment complex, and crawling around on the ground naked.  DeKalb County Police Cedric Alexander says the officer found the man in a parking lot.  The man ran at the officer, who backed up and told the man to stop.  When the man kept running at him, the officer shot him twice.  The chief said he could “reasonably assume” the man might have been mentally ill. 

 

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03-10-2015 05:04:06