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Loreal Tsingine: Arizona woman killed by officer held medical scissors, video shows

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Associated Press WINSLOW, AZ - Video from an Arizona police officer's body camera shows the woman he fatally shot in March had medical scissors in her hand. Footage was released Wednesday, days after Winslow Officer Austin Shipley was cleared in the shooting. Shipley was responding to a shoplifting call  when he fired at Loreal Tsingine. In the video, Shipley tries to restrain Tsingine, but she breaks free and falls to the ground. She gets up and walks quickly toward Shipley with the scissors in her right hand, pointed down. The video was silent during the shooting. Police say Tsingine refused commands to stop resisting, get on the ground and drop the scissors. The shooting of the Navajo woman led tribal officials to urge the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the treatment of American Indians.

Rick Perry: Black Lives Matter -- And So Does Black Liberty

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GUEST POST WRITTEN BY Rick Perry Rick Perry, a two-time presidential candidate, was the 47th Governor of Texas, serving from 2000 to 2015. Gov. Perry delivered these remarks on July 27, 2016, at the 43rd annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council in Indianapolis, Indiana. I want to spend some time with you today talking about the most pressing issue of our time for people like you and me, for people who share our values, for people all across this state and across this country. No, it’s not the election. Though believe me, I have opinions about that too. But it’s about something that is affecting this election, and will affect much more than this election if we don’t do something about it. When Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, America knew—and the world knew—the value of individual liberty and limited government. Whether you lived in East Berlin, Germany or East Bernard, Texas—whether you were a multi-generation Texan or an immigrant from Vi