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1 Int'l J. Therapeutic Juris. 373 (2016)
Procedural Justice and Officer-Involved-Shootings

handle is hein.journals/ijtherju1 and id is 385 raw text is: PROCEDURAL JUSTICE AND OFFICER-INVOLVED-SHOOTINGS Kimberly Hewes* I. INTRODUCTION. Hands Up! Don't Shoot! No Justice, No Peace! Black Lives Matter! These are the chants that have haunted society over the past year beginning with an officer-involved-shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the death of Michael Brown' on Au- gust 9, 2014. They have continued throughout the entire nation, even as recently as July 19, 2015 in Cincinnati, Ohio.2 Society has slammed the racial card on the table time and time again, declaring anarchy in the midst of the rising of officer-involved- shootings and the African American community. However, what is not seen are the various investigations and review pro- cesses involved in officer-involved-shootings. Society fails to grasp what officers have to deal with, professionally as well as personally, in the aftermath of a shooting-a shooting when they believed their life, or another's life was in danger and they had Student, Arizona Summit Law School On August 9, 2014, Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson was in- volved in an altercation wherein Michael Brown was fatally injured. Officer Wilson was subsequently cleared by a grand jury in Missouri of any criminal charges. Monica Davey & Julie Bosman, Protests Flare After Ferguson Po- lice Officer Is Not Indicted, N.Y. TIMES, (November 24, 2012), http://nyti.ms/lyNsywu. 2 On July 19, 2015, University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing stopped Samuel Dubose for not having a front license plate. Officer Tensing fatally shot Samuel Dubose in the head. Officer Tensing was indicted by a grand jury on the charge of murder. Richard Perez-Pena, University of Cin- cinnati Officer Indicted In Fatal Shooting of Driver, N.Y. TIMES, (July 29, 2015), http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/us/university-of-cincinnati-of- ficer-indicted-in-shooting-death-of-motorist.html

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