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BART Shooting

A federal judge upheld a jury verdict in favor of the family of a black man shot three times in the back and killed by a transit cop after he raised an empty hand in response to the cop’s command, “Let me see your hands.”

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge upheld a jury verdict in favor of the family of a black man shot three times in the back and killed by a transit cop after he raised an empty hand in response to the cop’s command, “Let me see your hands.”

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