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Washington Post: "Why a dash-cam video of a police shooting might not be a smoking gun"
Photo: Demonstrators led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson march down State Street in Chicago on Dec. 6, 2015, to protest the death of Laquan McDonald and the response of Chicago police. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
. . . Prosecutors are often reluctant to pursue these cases, for many reasons: They have long-standing relationships with the police and may hesitate when officers are involved in a fatal shooting, and they also worry they will make police reluctant to put themselves in harm’s way, out of fear of making an error, said Randolph McLaughlin, a professor at Pace Law School in White Plains, N.Y., and a civil rights lawyer who works with police shooting cases.
