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Police shootings

There used to be a time if you got stuck on the highway you would wait for the police to come and help you. Now it seems, if you are black, that you wait for the police to come and shoot you, even though your hands are up.

Instead of helping a person in distress, the training for police officers is now shoot first and ask questions later.

Betty Fleisher, Aventura

This story was originally published September 24, 2016 at 2:00 PM with the headline "Police shootings."

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