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Bad Cop

PITTSBURGH - Wilkes-Barre police Officer Shawn Whitebread sexually assaulted a woman under threat of arrest in June 2013, she claims in Federal Court.

Whitebread was fired 4 months later for reasons the city called "very serious" but did not clarify, according to Pennsylvania news reports.

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