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The Daily Bulletin October 22, 2021
What To Know

NEW from THE TRACE: Florida teen is just the latest person killed by police while carrying a toy gun. The 17-year-old's death last weekend follows a long line of incidents in which police have shot and killed people carrying airsoft guns, including 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014. Since 2015, police have killed at least 245 people — including 26 this year alone — while they were in possession of a toy gun, according to The Washington Post’s police shooting database. As The Trace has reported, toy guns are regularly designed to mirror their real-life counterparts, often down to…

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