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Acquitted ex-Tulsa officer volunteers at sheriff's office
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A white former Tulsa police officer who resigned after being acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man was sworn in Thursday as a reserve deputy sheriff in a neighboring county. Wearing a firearm o...
Tulsa police officer charged in man's death
TULSA, Okla. (AP, posted Sept. 22, 2016) — Prosecutors in Tulsa, Oklahoma, charged a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street with first-degree manslaughter Thursday. Tulsa County District Attorney Steve K... Full story
Family, neighbors: Tulsa man was changing his life, generous
TULSA, Okla. (AP, posted Sept. 21, 2016) — An unarmed black man shot dead in the middle of a street by a white Oklahoma police officer had run-ins with the law dating back to his teenage years and recently served four years in prison. But those c...
Lawyers for slain Tulsa man: Drug discussion a distraction
TULSA, Okla. (AP, posted Sept. 20, 2016) — Investigators found the drug PCP in the vehicle of an unarmed black man fatally shot by a white officer, according to Oklahoma police, but attorneys for the slain man's family say discussion of drugs distrac...