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Dozens of deaths in the US reveal risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police

Joint media probe finds at least 94 people died in the US, half of them blacks, after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through 2021
That’s nearly 10 percent of the more than 1,000 deaths identified during the investigation of people subdued by police in ways that are not supposed to be fatal

By AP · 27 April 2024