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Officials investigate fire at Mississippi police department tied to fatal shooting of Black toddler
Source: World news | The Guardian · Published
Person arrested after fire at police department where officer who shot and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley had worked In the early hours of 31 October, a fire broke out at the Senatobia police department in Mississippi, which has been embroiled in controversy recently after one o
Person arrested after fire at police department where officer who shot and killed one-year-old Kohen Wiley had worked In the early hours of 31 October, a fire broke out at the Senatobia police department in Mississippi, which has been embroiled in controversy recently after one of its officers shot and killed Kohen Wiley, a one-year-old. Though the cause of the fire has not been reported, it is being investigated as arson by agents with the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In June, then Senatobia police sergeant Hunter Foster shot Kohen as he sat in his mother’s arms in a Walmart parking lot.
Foster, who is white, was responding to a report of an alleged shoplifting; Kohen, his mother and the driver of the vehicle, are Black. Continue reading...
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