WHY COPS SHOOT

How the Tampa Bay Times tracked police shootings

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• Five years after police shot her son, Natasha Clemons is still fighting

  

  In June 2012, Rodney Mitchell was shot and killed by Sarasota County Sheriff’s deputies. Since then, his mother has pushed for the officers to be prosecuted.

• Andi Sheldon’s last night

  

  Andi Sheldon was shot and killed by police officers in St. John’s County standing in her doorway, holding a gun. Her husband, Rick Sheldon, recounts the night of her death.

• ‘I was afraid he was going to kill me’

  

  Rudy Taylor was hitchhiking to Montana when he stopped to rest in a ditch near I-10, in Fla. He was inside the tent when two officers approached him to ask him to leave.

• Police chief, on shootings: ‘We’ve become warriors. And that’s not what American policing was founded on.’

  

  Using body cam footage, former Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood describes an encounter that could have turned deadly — and how he changed his department to police less violently.