BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. - The family of a 2-year-old shot and killed by a Joplin SWAT officer s bullet in a Kansas hostage incident file a civil rights lawsuit.
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The number of fatal police shootings across the country rose again last year, with officers killing 1,096 people, including a 2-year-old girl caught in a standoff.
The majority of people police shot and killed were armed. And, as in prior years, about one quarter of people killed were in the throes of a mental or emotional crisis.