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Family of homeless Black man shot 22 times by police settles lawsuit for $3.5m - Face2Face Africa

The family of Wayne Arnold Jones, a homeless black man who was shot 22 times by police, has agreed to settle an excessive force lawsuit it brought against a West Virginia city. Jones was walking on Martinsburg street in March 2013 when police stopped him. He was then shot 22 times after police said the...

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