Authorities investigate shooting at Tucson VA Medical Center
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Tucson Police are assisting VA Police in investigating a shooting that happened at the Tucson VA Medical Center Saturday morning.
and last updated 2021-04-24 19:33:26-04
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) â Tucson Police are assisting VA Police in investigating a shooting that happened at the Tucson VA Medical Center Saturday morning.
The VA says the area has been secured and there is no threat to patients or staff.
The shooting incident remains under investigation.
No further details were immediately released.
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When will Virginia stop beating and abusing our Black motorists?
Police officers, who are paid and trained by the state and localities, have a long and dreadful history of stopping and mistreating Black drivers. Our state is not alone in this violent behavior but clearly can do better.
This outrageous behavior hurts Virginia families and communities, sowing distrust and danger. As Third District Rep. Bobby Scott said in reaction to Virginiaâs most recent disgraceful example, ââI was horrified when I viewed the recently released video footage of the police treatment of Caron Nazario, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. This should have been a routin traffic stop and the video speaks for itself.â
Other veterans of color report abusive police traffic stops similar to Caron Nazario’s
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NORFOLK, Va. The police officers’ guns were trained on the uniformed U.S. Army lieutenant, his arms raised and palms outstretched as he sat in his SUV under a brightly lit gas station awning.
Lt. Caron Nazario had been pulled over in rural Virginia by the two officers, who repeatedly demanded that he step out of the vehicle. Nazario, who is Black and Latino, didn’t move and continually asked, “What’s going on?”
“I’m serving this country, and this is how I’m treated?” he said at one point.
Virginia’s top prosecutor announced Monday that the state has launched a civil rights investigation into a disturbing traffic stop in which a now-fired police officer pepper-sprayed a Black and Latino Army medic who had his hands in the air.