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Prosecutors Close Civil Rights Probe Into Fatal Westchester Police Shooting Prosecutors Close Civil Rights Probe Into Fatal Westchester Police Shooting
Prosecutors Close Civil Rights Probe Into Fatal Westchester Police Shooting Citing insufficient evidence, prosecutors have closed the civil rights probe into the fatal shooting of a mentally ill African-American man who was shot and killed by a White Plains police officer several years ago. Joon Kim, the acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that there was insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal charges for officers’ involvement in the death of Kenneth Chamberlain in 2011. Chamberlain was 68 years old at the time of the shooting. Members of the White Plains Police Department were dispatched to Chamberlain’s apartmen…