After his family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager, ProPublica Deputy Managing Editor Eric Umansky tried to find out how it happened.
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Tue. Jun 23, 2020
ProPublica Deputy Managing Editor Eric Umansky’s family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager. He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.
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