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Family Files Lawsuit after Twelve-Year-Old Boy Shot during Police Raid

thenorthstar
Aug 21, 2019
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A family in Chicago has filed a lawsuit claiming a SWAT officer shot a 12-year-old boy in the knee during a police raid in Chicago while he was sitting in his bed.

The civil lawsuit, which was obtained by NBC News and filed on August 8 in Cook County Circuit Court, states that Amir Worship, 12, was shot in the knee by an officer in his family’s home whil…

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