A policeman shot an unarmed man, claiming he feared for his life. The state attorney general wanted to investigate. But a local prosecutor allegedly intervened.
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The night before he died, Edson Thevenin curled up to watch Star Wars with his kids at their apartment in Watervliet, New York. It was a Saturday in April, and the 37-year-old father of two realized it was getting late.