Washington: On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Las Vegas police cornered Keith Childress Jr, who was wanted for a number of violent felonies. They opened fire on the 23-year-old after he refused to drop the object in his hands, which turned out not to be a gun but a cellphone. And with that, the nation logged what is likely its final police shooting death of 2015, a year that saw 984 such killings, well more than double the average number reported annually by the FBI over the past decade. The shooting is the final one to be counted as part of The Washington Post's year-long project tracking on-duty police killings by firearm, an issue that has taken on new urgency in the wake of a...
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