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Duluth Cop’s Account Of ‘Almost Shooting An Unarmed Black Man’ Goes Viral

Jon Brown
Duluth Cop’s Account Of ‘Almost Shooting An Unarmed Black Man’ Goes Viral
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A Duluth, Minnesota, police sergeant’s harrowing account of nearly shooting an unarmed black man went viral after he posted it on Facebook, prompting both support and backlash, as well as an apology from his police chief.

In an Aug. 27 post to the Duluth Police Local 807 Facebook page, Sgt. Matt McShane described the split-second decision he had to make when he and his partners were called to respond to a shooting from which people were fleeing after 17 shots were fired.

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