article_snippet: It comes in the wake of several fatal  shootings in the US by on-duty police officers.
article_snippet: The fatal shooting Skid Row came during a national debate about police use of force after several killings by on-duty police officers.
article_snippet: The killings of two unarmed blacks by white police officers in Missouri and New York last summer touched off protests over police conduct that intensified after grand juries refused to indict the officers.
article_snippet: Tensions escalated further after two New York City police officers were killed by a man who suggested in online posts that two New York City police officers deaths were in retaliation for the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City.
article_snippet: The shooting set off days of racially-charged protests.
article_snippet: Other recent deaths during police actions in New York and in Ferguson, Missouri, and the lack of prosecution of the officers involved, have brought nationwide protest.
article_snippet: Police guard the scene of the fatal shooting in downtown Los Angeles .