The Kansas City police have suffered a string of complaints about excessive force and racism. Most recently a young stockbroker, was shot dead by a police officer who entered the victim's apartment at 3:30 a.m. looking for a prowler. It was the seventh shooting death involving Kansas City police this year. In June several white officers bloodied a Nigerian-born Roman Catholic priest with nightsticks as he lay on the ground. In May another black clergyman was hit on the head with a shotgun by a white officer as he lay on the ground. Earlier this year 15 officers riddled a man brandishing a barbecue fork with four bullets, killing him.
The Kansas City police have suffered a string of complaints about excessive force and racism. Most recently a young stockbroker, was shot dead by a police officer who entered the victim's apartment at 3:30 a.m. looking for a prowler. It was the seventh shooting death involving Kansas City police this year. In June several white officers bloodied a Nigerian-born Roman Catholic priest with nightsticks as he lay on the ground. In May another black clergyman was hit on the head with a shotgun by a white officer as he lay on the ground. Earlier this year four officers riddled a man brandishing a barbecue fork with 15 bullets, killing him.