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Crime
Video shows man before being shot by Texas deputy
HOUSTON (AP) — Cellphone video of a sheriff’s deputy fatally shooting an unarmed black man shows the man wandering in a Houston street with his pants around his ankles and continuing to approach the deputy as the officer tells him to stop. The video, obtained by the Houston Chronicle from a civilian witness , does not show the actual shooting because a car passes in front of the cellphone camera as the Harris County deputy fires a single shot. A spokesman for the sheriff’s office says the man had an object in his hand, but no weapon was recovered at the scene.
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