<p>WHYY’s Cris Barrish recently <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/del-police-have-shot-56-people-since-2005-but-law-immunizes-them-from-prosecution/">dug into every police shooting in Delaware since 2005</a> and while officers have shot 56 people in that time, no officer has ever been charged — even when prosecutors wanted to. Now, the protests over the police killing of George Floyd have the state’s top prosecutor and some lawmakers pushing to change the state’s use-of-force law.</p>

WHYY’s Cris Barrish recently dug into every police shooting in Delaware since 2005 and while officers have shot 56 people in that time, no officer has ever been charged — even when prosecutors wanted to. Now, the protests over the police killing of George Floyd have the state’s top prosecutor and some lawmakers pushing to change the state’s use-of-force law.

<p>WHYY’s Cris Barrish recently <a href="https://whyy.org/articles/del-police-have-shot-56-people-since-2005-but-law-immunizes-them-from-prosecution/" rel="noopener noreferrer">dug into every police shooting in Delaware since 2005</a> and while officers have shot 56 people in that time, no officer has ever been charged — even when prosecutors wanted to. Now, the protests over the police killing of George Floyd have the state’s top prosecutor and some lawmakers pushing to change the state’s use-of-force law.</p>

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