The Counted: are US police hiding behind 'suicide by cop' shootings?
None of the shots that struck Tommy Smith outside his mother’s house among the stubbled grain fields of Arcola, Illinois, came from his own gun. During his encounter with police on a chilly evening in early January, Smith, a 39-year-old hotel maintenance supervisor, never turned the AR-15 rifle against his own body. Yet the record books of Douglas County will state that Smith killed himself.
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