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Officers are indicted for shooting a Black man 59 times. A conviction won't be easy, experts say.

Nov 07, 2021

Officers are indicted for shooting a Black man 59 times. A conviction won't be easy, experts say.

A deputy U.S. marshal and Georgia police officer were indicted last week in the killing of Jamarion Robinson, a mentally ill Black man who was shot 59 times in an Atlanta-area apartment in 2016. But legal experts say that prosecutors have a steep hill to climb in securing a conviction for the two officers who were working for a federal fugitive task force, a group deputized with federal powers to cross state lines and track down people wanted on arrest warrants.