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Students and faculty exit a building with their hands up after a fatal shooting at North Lake College in Irving, Texas, on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Multiple people died in an apparent murder-suicide at the college, prompting an active-shooter alert that instructed students and employees to barricade themselves into rooms. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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FILE - In this June 13, 2016, file photo, Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch, a legal brothel near Carson City, Nevada, is pictured during an interview in Oklahoma City. Hof, Nevada's best-known legal brothel owner is being accused of violating regulations at a property he owns near a desert crossroads outside Las Vegas. Nye County Commission Chairman Dan Schinhofen, says Hof faces possible commission discipline May 17, 2017, on two code violations found at his brothel in Amargosa Valley. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., talks to media on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Wednesday, May 3, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **
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FILE - This undated photo released by Javille Burns shows her brother, Jamar Clark, who was fatally shot in a confrontation with police on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015, in Minneapolis. The officers, Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze, were trying to arrest Clark when he was shot once in the head. He died a day later. Some witnesses said Clark was handcuffed when he was shot, but federal and state probes concluded that he was not. Investigators said Ringgenberg felt Clark's hand trying to grab his weapon and shouted to Schwarze, who then shot Clark. Prosecutors decided not to charge either white officer, and an internal police investigation cleared them. (Jamar Clark/Javille Burns via AP, File)
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FILE – In this July 29, 2015 file photo, photos of Sam DuBose hang on a pole at a memorial near where he was shot and killed by a University of Cincinnati police officer during a July 19, 2015 traffic stop in Cincinnati. Prosecutors plan to retry former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing. The jury deadlocked after his first murder trial. He faces 15 years to life if convicted. Tensing's body camera captured much of the encounter, although the two sides dispute what conclusions can be reached. Tensing's attorney says DuBose was using his car as a deadly weapon. The university fired Tensing, restructured its public safety department and reached a $5.3 million settlement that includes free undergraduate tuition for DuBose's 13 children. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman, File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016 file photo, Sallie Chapman's tears are wiped away as she talks about the loss of her son, William Chapman II, prior to the sentencing of former police officer Stephen Rankin in Portsmouth, Va. Rankin was sentenced in October to 2½ years in prison for fatally shooting the unarmed 18-year-old while responding to a shoplifting call outside a Wal-Mart on April 22, 2015. Prosecutors allege Rankin killed Chapman "willfully, deliberately and with premeditation." Chapman's body was reportedly delivered to the medical examiner with handcuffs still bound behind his back. Some witnesses said Chapman was combative, and one said he knocked away Rankin's stun gun. Rankin, who is white, was fired. (Vicki Cronis-Nohe/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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FILE - In this May 2, 2015 file photo, Earl Lewis, Jr. speaks during the funeral service for William Chapman II in Portsmouth, Va. Former Portsmouth police officer Steven Rankin was sentenced in October 2016 to 2½ years in prison for fatally shooting the unarmed 18-year-old while responding to a shoplifting call outside a Wal-Mart on April 22, 2015. Prosecutors allege Rankin killed Chapman "willfully, deliberately and with premeditation." Chapman's body was reportedly delivered to the medical examiner with handcuffs still bound behind his back. Some witnesses said Chapman was combative, and one said he knocked away Rankin's stun gun. Rankin, who is white, was fired. (L. Todd Spencer/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
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FILE - In this Monday, April 27, 2015 file photo, a boy stands in front of a police cordon following the funeral of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. The 25-year-old man was shackled but alive when he was put in Baltimore police van in April 2015. He came out with severe neck injuries, and his subsequent death led to rioting. Six officers were charged initially, but prosecutors in July dropped all remaining charges after acquittals and a hung jury. Gray's family agreed to a $6.4 million settlement with the city in September 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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FILE - In this undated photo provided by Smolen, Smolen & Roytman, PLLC, Eric Harris, left, stands with his son, Aidan Fraley. Former Tulsa County volunteer sheriff's deputy Robert Bates, 74, was sentenced to four years in prison for second-degree manslaughter in the April 2015 death of Harris, 44, a black man who was unarmed and restrained. Bates, who is white, has said he confused his stun gun with his handgun. That shooting led to the temporary suspension of the reserve deputy program after a report found poor training of the volunteer officers, a lack of oversight, and cronyism. (Courtesy of Andre Harris/Smolen, Smolen & Roytman, PLLC via AP)
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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2014 file photo, Tomiko Shine holds up a poster of Tamir Rice during a protest in Washington. The 12-year-old black boy was fatally shot by a white Cleveland police officer near a gazebo in a recreational area in November 2014. Officers were responding to a report of a man waving a gun. The boy had a pellet gun tucked in his waistband and was shot right after their cruiser skidded to a stop, just feet away. A grand jury in December 2015 declined to indict patrolman Timothy Loehmann, who fired the fatal shot, and training officer Frank Garmback. The city settled his family's lawsuit for $6 million. The officers still could be disciplined or fired by the department. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014 file photo, Ken Palmer, stepfather of Akai Gurley, holds a program with his photo during his son's funeral at Brown Baptist Memorial Church in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Rookie New York City police officer Peter Liang was convicted of manslaughter in 2016 in the November 2014 death of 28-year-old Gurley. Liang, an American of Chinese descent, said he was patrolling a public housing high-rise with his gun drawn when a sound startled him and he fired accidentally. A bullet ricocheted off a wall, hitting Gurley. A judge reduced the conviction to negligent homicide and sentenced Liang to five years' probation and 800 hours of community service. The city settled with Gurley's family for $4.1 million. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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FILE - This undated autopsy diagram provided by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office shows the location of wounds on the body of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald who was shot by a Chicago Police officer 16 times in 2014. Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in November 2015, on the same day that the city, under a judge's orders, released dashcam video showing McDonald, a 17-year-old black man, being shot 16 times on Oct. 20, 2014. Van Dyke, who is white, has pleaded not guilty. The video prompted local and federal investigations; The Justice Department determined in January that Chicago police have a long history of civil rights violations and excessive force. (Cook County Medical Examiner via AP)
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FILE - This undated photo provided by his family shows Laquan McDonald. Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in November 2015, on the same day that the city, under a judge's orders, released dashcam video showing McDonald, a 17-year-old black man, being shot 16 times on Oct. 20, 2014. Van Dyke, who is white, has pleaded not guilty. The video prompted local and federal investigations; The Justice Department determined in January that Chicago police have a long history of civil rights violations and excessive force. (Courtesy of the Family via AP)
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the FBI shows Joseph D. Jones, left, and Edward Schimenti, both of suburban Chicago, pose in front of an Islamic State group flag. The two men, who are accused of seeking to provide material support to terrorists, pleaded not guilty Wednesday, May 3, 2017, at federal court in Chicago. Both were arrested by FBI agents on April 12, 2017. (FBI via AP, File)
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FILE - This undated photo provided by the Brown family shows Michael Brown. The 18-year-old black man was fatally shot by a white officer, Darren Wilson, in August 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. A grand jury declined to indict Wilson, and the U.S. Justice Department opted against civil rights charges. Wilson later resigned. The death of Brown, who was unarmed, led to months of occasionally violent protests and became a catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement, which rebukes police treatment of minorities. (Courtesy of the Brown Family via AP, File)
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FILE - In this March 4, 2016 file photo, Martinez Sutton wears a shirt commemorating his sister, Rekia Boyd, 22, who was shot and killed in 2012 by Chicago police officer Dante Servin. Servin resigned in May 2016 after the police superintendent said he should be fired for killing Boyd, 22, an unarmed black woman, four years earlier. Servin was off-duty during the incident. She had been walking down a street with her friends when he told them to be quiet, and he fired when he thought he saw a gun. Prosecutors charged Servin with involuntary manslaughter, a judge acquitted him in April 2016, saying he'd been improperly charged. The city settled a wrongful-death lawsuit in 2013 with Boyd's family for $4.5 million. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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FILE - In this Thursday, July 7, 2016 file photo, Tia Williams, left, and her daughter Aissa create a display on the street outside the Minnesota governor's official residence in St. Paul, Minn., as people gathered to protest the shooting death of Philando Castile by police. Castile was shot and killed July 6, 2016 by officer Jeronimo Yanez, who is Hispanic, after being pulled over as he drove through a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, with his girlfriend and her young daughter in the car. Livestreaming on Facebook moments later, his girlfriend said Castile, 32, was shot while reaching for his ID after telling the officer he had a gun permit and was armed. Ramsey County Attorney John Choi concluded that Yanez wasn't justified in using deadly force. Yanez is charged with manslaughter and is free ahead of his trial scheduled to start later this month. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune via AP)/Star Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2016 image made from video provided by police, Terence Crutcher, left, with his arms held up, is pursued by police officers as he walks next to his stalled SUV moments before he was shot and killed by one of the officers in Tulsa, Okla. Police Officer Betty Jo Shelby's manslaughter trial begins Monday, May 8, 2017 in the shooting of Crutcher, 40, an unarmed black man. Shelby, who is white, shot him shortly after she arrived on a street to find Crutcher's SUV stopped in the middle of the road. Crutcher was seen without a weapon and with his hands up on videos from a patrol car dashboard and a police helicopter before Shelby shot him. Police Chief Chuck Jordan has said Crutcher did not have a gun on his body nor in his SUV. Shelby has pleaded not guilty. (Tulsa Police Department via AP)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, July 23, 2014 file photo, Eric Garner's body lies in a casket during his funeral at Bethel Baptist Church in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The 43-year-old black man died in July 2014 in New York City after a white officer placed him in a chokehold during an arrest for selling loose cigarettes. A grand jury declined to indict that officer, nor any others involved in the arrest. The city agreed to pay a $6 million civil settlement. (Julia Xanthos/New York Daily News via AP, Pool)
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gestures while speaking to State Department employees, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
