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Darryl Owens | Local Police Shooting Highlights National Issues

Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting of an unarmed black man,Cedric Bartee, by a white police officer. The incident occurred earlier this week in Orange County in the wake of protestsafter the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner by law enforcement officers. Orlando Sentinel columnist Darryl Owens joins 90.7's Nicole Creston to talk about his reaction after the news of the Bartee shooting.

Nicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined WMFE in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy.