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Distraught People, Deadly Results

According to a report in the Washington Post, police in the US have shot and killed 124 people this year who were in the throes of mental or emotional crisis, . The dead account for a quarter of the 462 people shot to death by police in the first six months of 2015. Read the article here.

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