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Police Shooting

The mother of a Black man fatally shot by Louisiana deputies two days after the death of George Floyd claims in a federal lawsuit that the Jefferson Parish sheriff has refused to release video of the shooting to back up officers’ claims that her son was armed.

NEW ORLEANS — The mother of a Black man fatally shot by Louisiana deputies two days after the death of George Floyd claims in a federal lawsuit that the Jefferson Parish sheriff has refused to release video of the shooting to back up officers’ claims that her son was armed.

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