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August 17, 2020

Three Officers in Jackson, MS Charged with Murdering Black Man
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In Jackson, Mississippi, prosecutors have charged three police officers
with murdering a Black man outside his own home more than a year and a
half ago. A grand jury indictment filed Friday alleges that in January
2019 the three officers pulled 62-year-old George Robinson from his car,
threw him headfirst into the pavement and then beat and kicked him in
the head and chest. A coroner's report found Robinson suffered broken
ribs and a bleeding brain caused by blunt force trauma to the head.


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