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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Sep 14, 2020, 05:09 PM Sep 2020

In an area better known for Amish, police shots stoke unrest

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A police officer fatally shot a man during a domestic disturbance call, leading to street protests and vandalism in what the mayor of the small Pennsylvania city of Lancaster called a “heartbreaking day.”

Police posted the officer's body camera video on social media, showing the man chasing the officer down a sidewalk with a knife before he was fatally shot. Police eventually used tear gas early Monday to disperse the crowds.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the diverse city of 59,000 people in the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country following the shooting death of Ricardo Munoz, 27, on Sunday afternoon.

The crowd formed outside the police station and, in video posted to social media, demonstrators chant, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” “No justice, no peace” and "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tear-gas-used-crowd-protesting-070653836.html

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