A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the child's home has been suspended without pay, a city official said Tuesday.
in the child's home has been suspended without pay, a city official said Tuesday.
Capers' attorney, Michael Carr, said the Board's 4-1 vote was cast during a"closed-door, unnoticed" meeting without informing him or his client. The shooting happened in Indianola, a town of about 9,300 residents in the rural Mississippi Delta, about 95 miles northwest of Jackson.
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