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Collected Item: “Black man wrongfully detained by maskless police officer tests positive for COVID-19, fiancee says”

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Black man wrongfully detained by maskless police officer tests positive for COVID-19, fiancee says

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Article

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Excerpt from article: A Black man who was detained by police in Virginia Beach, Virginia after being suspected for a crime he did not commit, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to his fiancée, Shantel Covil.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/black-man-wrongfully-detained-maskless-police-officer-tests/story?id=74967778&fbclid=IwAR1fdimaIQLkUEH0T4bv8_rsCSIcwmRW3jqog6a75J4J78C1-jPVdysNQ0s

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Dan Toomey, ABC News

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2020-12-30
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