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“In many … shootings, police officers did not know who they were encountering or know their criminal background… After deadly force encounters involving black people, the media consistently called into question the criminal histories placing blame solely on the victim."
The Religion of Policing: Race, Riots, and the Killing of Alton Sterling
Ph.D. Dissertation in Sociology, Louisiana State University
August
2019
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