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August 14, 2015

White officer tells his story in black man’s shooting death

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — As a white Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer returned to the witness stand Friday, prosecutors challenged his statements to investigators on the night he shot and killed an

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