South Bay Guards Killed Shacoby Kenny Last December. Why Are They Still Working? 

Sources allege that officers who brutalized pre-trial detainee later intimidated witnesses and tainted early stages of police investigation

This story contains descriptions of violence. Readers looking to avoid these descriptions may skip the ‘Eyewitness accounts’ section. You can read the author’s prior coverage of the Shacoby Kenny killing here. Shacoby Kenny’s mother has carried the pain…

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