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December 13, 2014

Union: Police not told boy’s gun might be fake

By MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press JOHN SEEWER, Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) — A dispatcher didn't tell officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy last month that the gun might not be real or that the person

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