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This December 2022 photo provided by Nakala Murry of Indianola, Miss., shows her 11-year-old son Aderrien Murry, who was shot and wounded by an Indianola Police Department officer on May 20, 2023, during a domestic disturbance call at the home of Murry's family. The Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded the unarmed boy has been suspended without pay during an investigation, a city official said Tuesday, June 13. (Courtesy of Nakala Murry via AP, File)

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Mississippi police officer who shot 11-year-old boy suspended without pay
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Tue,06/13/23-6:47PM , 196 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home has been suspended without pay, a city official said Tuesday.
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Jill Collen Jefferson, president of JULIAN, civil rights and international human rights law firm, speaks in Lexington, Miss., during a civil rights tour, June 1, 2023. The civil rights attorney was arrested Saturday, June 10, while filming a traffic stop conducted by officers from a police department she is suing in federal court. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)

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Mississippi civil rights lawyer arrested filming traffic stop, attorney says
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Sun,06/11/23-4:28PM , 257 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi civil rights lawyer was arrested Saturday after filming a traffic stop conducted by officers from a police department she is suing in federal court, her attorney says.
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Michael Corey Jenkins stands outside Taylor Hill Church in Braxton, Miss., March 18, 2023. Two Black men — one of whom was shot in the mouth by a law enforcement officer — will file a federal civil rights lawsuit against a Mississippi sheriff’s department alleging a pattern of deputies using excessive force against Black people. In a news release announcing the lawsuit, on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, attorneys for Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker said they would bring forward 22 claims of federal civil rights violations. (AP Photo/HG Biggs, file)

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Black man shot in the mouth by Mississippi deputy to file federal civil rights lawsuit
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Tue,06/06/23-2:45PM , 137 Reads
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Ted Henifin, the interim third-party manager appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to help fix the long-troubled water system of the Mississippi's capital city, speaks about the expansive list of reforms the city's water department is undertaking, Monday, June 5, 2023, at the Stennis-Capitol Press Corps lunch in Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Mississippi's capital only collects 56% of fees from its struggling water system
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Mon,06/05/23-4:55PM , 184 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's capital is collecting only a little more than half of the money it bills for water use, far below the rate at which most American cities obtain such fees, Jackson's federally appointed water manager said Monday.
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