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VA Officer Sentenced to 2.5 Years for Killing of Unarmed African American

HeadlineAug 05, 2016

A jury has recommended a sentence of two-and-a-half years for Virginia police officer Stephen Rankin, who was convicted of shooting an unarmed African-American man he had suspected of shoplifting. The killing of William Chapman was Officer Rankin’s second fatal shooting of an unarmed man.

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