A plainclothes sheriff shot and killed an unarmed man wearing only swim trunks after an argument ensued, witnesses said.

有目击者称，一位便衣治安官与一名只穿泳裤的年轻人发生争执后，枪杀了该男子。

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But if he was dead, it said, they were questioning "why an unarmed man was not arrested and tried in a court of law so that truth is revealed to the people of the world".

但是如果他真的死了，声明说，他们则质疑“为什么一个手无寸铁的人不是被捕，并在法庭上受法律审判，让真相展现在世界人民的面前”。

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He is referring to the news that three police officers were acquitted of all charges after shooting dead an unarmed black man, Sean Bell, a few hours before his wedding.

三名警察在枪杀一名黑人贝尔(Sean Bell)后被无罪释放。贝尔死时身无武器，离自己的婚礼只差数小时。

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New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans police lined up "like at a firing range" and fatally shot an unarmed man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, a witness to the shooting told CNN.

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Fuller has criticized Luken's handling of the riots that broke out earlier this year when an unarmed black man was shot and killed by a white city police officer.

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Finally, there is the overarching and historically painful reality that an unarmed black teenager lies dead at the hand of an armed Hispanic man who ignored a dispatcher's advice not to follow and engage the "suspect, " and who may have -- and this too is forensically unclear -- uttered a racial epithet while chasing him.

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