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Like other recent instances of racial progress, a landmark prison sentence for a white Missouri cop in the killing of a Black man was ended almost as soon as it started. Missouri Governor Mike Parson has commuted the six-year prison sentence of former Kansas City detective Eric DeValkenaere. DeValkenaere, convicted of killing 26-year-old Cameron Lamb in 2019, was released after serving just over a year.
What a huge renege.
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