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Staunton Police Chief issues nothingburger statement on Sept. 22 officer-involved shooting

Staunton Police Chief Jim Williams released a lengthy public statement today on the Sept. 22 officer-involved shooting of a Black man at the Staunton Walmart, and the TL;DR report that I can give you having read it is: we don’t know any more now after the statement than we did before.

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