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Dahleen Glanton: Latest cop shooting in Texas makes it clear: African Americans are right to fear the police

If there was any doubt that African Americans are in imminent danger of the police, the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson should make it clear.

If a video showing a police officer murder Laquan McDonald on a Chicago street did not convince you that black people are unjustly being gunned down by police, then the blatant shooting of a young woman playing video games with her nephew in her own home must force you to reconsider.

Long before McDonald or Jefferson, there was Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old black woman who was shot and killed by an off-duty Chicago police detective while

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