Author: Mike Kunzelman
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Victim’s mother: ‘So much healing to do’
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. • The mother of a woman killed when a car plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally last summer said Sunday that there’s much healing to do a year after the violence in Charlottesville, Va. Heather Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, laid flowers at a makeshift memorial at the site…
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Police: Gunman who killed 3 was ‘seeking out’ officers
BATON ROUGE, La. — A former Marine dressed in black and carrying extra ammunition set out to ambush police in Baton Rouge, authorities said Monday, a day after three law enforcement officers were killed in the attack. The gunman’s “movements, his direction, his attention was on police officers,” state police Col. Mike Edmonson said. He…
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Feds open civil rights investigation in Louisiana shooting
BATON ROUGE, La. — In a swift move by authorities to keep tensions from boiling over, the U.S. Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation Wednesday into the video-recorded killing of a black man who was shot as he scuffled with two white police officers on the pavement outside a convenience store. A law enforcement…