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The Willie McCoy Tapes: Inside the Vallejo police investigation The Vallejo Sun
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On Feb. 9, 2019, six police officers in Vallejo, California, fired 55 times into a car parked in a Taco Bell drive-thru, killing Willie McCoy, who had been asleep behind the wheel just seconds before. The Vallejo Sun obtained audio recordings of interviews with those officers in the following hours, showing surface-level questioning with little pushback as police in a particularly violent department investigated their own and justified yet another deadly encounter with the public.
On Feb. 9, 2019, six police officers in Vallejo, California, fired 55 times into a car parked in a Taco Bell drive-thru, killing Willie McCoy, who had been asleep behind the wheel just seconds before. The Vallejo Sun obtained audio recordings of interviews with those officers in the following hours, showing surface-level questioning with little pushback as police in a particularly violent department investigated their own and justified yet another deadly encounter with the public.
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