New accounts also have Mo. teen’s hands in air
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Footage released by CNN and an account from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch seem to square with witness reports that Michael Brown’s hands were up before he was shot and killed by a police officer on Aug. 9.
S.C. father accused of killing his children was investigated after abuse allegations
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