Wednesday
Jun092004
Attorneys probing police shooting of Centerville man
Wednesday, June 9, 2004 at 04:41AM
A team of private attorneys says it will
investigate whether a Brownsville police officer was racially profiling
when she attempted to pull over a man who was later shot and killed
during a police chase. The family of Kermith Sonnier Jr., 37, of
Centerville, also claims the Rev. Jesse Jackson is alleging the man's
civil rights may have been violated when he was killed by police May 5
off a dead-end road on the outskirts of Brownsville. [more]
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