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DA: Bad time to drop charge of ex-cop in black man's death

| May 29, 2020 4:27 PM

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — A local Mississippi prosecutor said Friday that the state attorney general had bad timing in dropping a manslaughter charge this week against a white former police officer in the 2015 killing of a black man, given protests erupting across the U.S. over similar killings.

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