August 6, 2020
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves (pictured) on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that Clarence Jamison, a Black resident of Neeses, South Carolina, filed against a white Mississippi police officer, Nick McClendon. Photo courtesy U.S. District Court
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