Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued a terse statement, months after officers, responding to a report of stolen diapers, surrounded a car, guns drawn.

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Text exchanges obtained by reporters show troubling messages sent by the chief of a Mississippi police department facing an uproar over the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy in June.

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Nearly three weeks after the 18-year-old was found dead off an island near the Mississippi coast, there have been no conclusive answers as to what happened.

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