Taser death ignites racial tensions

At 1:28 p.m. Baron "Scooter" Pikes was a healthy 21-year-old man. By 2:07 p.m. he was dead. What happened in the 39 minutes in between--during which Pikes was handcuffed by local police and shocked 9 times with a Taser device, while reportedly pleading for mercy--is now spawning fears of a political cover-up in this backwoods Louisiana lumber town.

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