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Tagged: police shooting

Law
2:37 pm
Tue September 18, 2012

Emotions still running high after Saginaw fatal police shooting

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Credit Kate Wells
Jewel Hall, mother of Milton Hall, spoke a community forum about the fatal police shooting of her son.
Some 200 residents, mostly African American, came to the forum held in a church near downtown Saginaw.
Credit Kate Wells
Saginaw city manger Darnell Earley has told media that the city is conducting its own internal investigation into the shooting.
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Justice still hasn’t been done in the case of a fatal police shooting of a mentally ill man in Saginaw this summer.

That was the message at a community forum this week, where some 200 residents came out to express frustration with local law enforcement, and with the county prosecutor for declining to press criminal charges against the officers. 

Among the mostly African American crowd at the forum, the primary question seemed to be: why was so much lethal force used on July 1st, the day Milton Hall was shot by police 11 times?

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Law
5:01 pm
Thu August 30, 2012

No answers yet in police shooting of mentally-ill man

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Police officers fatally shot a mentally-ill Saginaw man
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Two months after Saginaw police fatally shot a mentally-ill man, his family and community are still calling for answers.

On July 1st, Milton Hall was gunned down in a parking lot during a confrontation with police. It was captured on a cell phone video and made national headlines, with some media reporting the officers fired 46 times.

Hall reportedly held a knife, though the video appears to show he was several feet away when police opened fire.

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