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FBI Joins LAPD in Investigating Police Killing of 13-Year-Old

HeadlineFeb 10, 2005

In Los Angeles, the FBI has joined the investigation into the police killing of 13-year-old Devin Brown. The African American 8th grader died Sunday after police fired 10 shots at him. He was driving a stolen car. After a short chase, police say he tried backing his vehicle into a police car. Brown attended a magnet school for gifted students. The FBI has was called in to help with the investigation in part due to increasing tension between the LAPD and the city’s African-American community. The shooting of Devin Brown came just a week after prosecutors decided not to press charges against an Los Angeles officer who was caught on videotape pummeling an African-American man with a heavy aluminum flashlight.

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