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Zero of those cases have resulted in convictions, though 12 cases are still ongoing.
Police officers enjoy special legal doctrines that make it harder to prosecute them.
On Tuesday, a grand jury in New York declined to indict any of the seven police officers involved in the killing of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in March after officers placed a bag over his head while he appeared to be experiencing a mental health crisis.
It was another loss for the office of the New York Attorney General. Out of the 43 investigations into police killings the attorney general s office has conducted since 2015, zero have resulted in convictions.
Gainesville’s first soil collection ceremony memorializes city’s lynching victims
About 100 community members, Gainesville residents and local officials gathered to honor the 12 victims February 22, 2021 | 6:30am EST
Alachua County Commissioner Marihelen Wheeler, 69, (right) and her granddaughter Tashayla Downer, 8, (left) fill a jar with soil to honor Andrew Ford at the Gainesville Soil Collection Ceremony on Feb. 20, 2021. Ford was lynched in Gainesville on Aug. 24, 1891, according to a pamphlet from the Alachua County Community Remembrance Project. Photo by Julia Cooper | The Independent Florida Alligator
Latoya Brazil didn’t know the story of how her great-grandfather Lester Watts was lynched in Gainesville until she was 17
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