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May 22, 2017

Ohio: No Indictment for White Officer Who Killed 13-Year-Old African-American Boy
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In Ohio, a grand jury has refused to indict white police officer Bryan
Mason for killing 13-year-old Tyre King in 2016. King was an
eighth-grader who played football and was in the young scholars program
at his school. He was playing with a toy BB gun near his home, when
officer Mason chased him into an alley, allegedly confused the toy gun
for a real gun, and then shot the boy repeatedly, killing him. King is
at least the second person Officer Mason has killed over the last five
years.


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