Shattered Relations Recounting the death of Kiwane Carrington

On October 9, 2009, 15 year old Kiwane Carrington was shot and killed by an on-duty police officer, Daniel Norbits, from the Champaign Police Department. This is the recounting of the news stories, editorials, and letters to the editor published by The News-Gazette in its daily newspaper and on news-gazette.com reporting on and reacting to that fateful incident.

Activists in the city's black community had been complaining about police abuse for years, and city officials had come off as dismi...