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Prosecutor: Ex-Indiana cop justified in black man's killing

by Associated Press
| March 6, 2020 2:05 PM

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A white former South Bend police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of an African American man last summer, but he was charged Friday with soliciting a prostitute a month before the shooting that roiled then-Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign, a special prosecutor announced.

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