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"The number of instances where law enforcement mistakenly believed that the suspect was armed were extremely rare, MSU Today reported.
But those are also often the cases that are widely reported by the media.
“We hear about the really horrendous and tragic cases of police shootings for a reason: they’re awful cases, they have major implications for police-community relations and so they should get attention,” Cesario acknowledged, according to MSU Today.
“But, this ends up skewing perceptions about police shootings and leads people to believe that all fatal shootings are similar to the ones we hear about,” he continued. “That’s just not the case.”