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A white man gets manslaughter and the minimum sentence for the shooting death of an unarmed black teen

Aidan Ellison’s mother, Andrea Woffard, speaks out about the death of her son. Ellison, 19,  was shot and killed in a motel parking lot. He was unarmed and the man who shot him was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder and received the minimum sentence of 10 years. 
(Photo courtesy  Matt Witt, Writers on the Range)
Aidan Ellison’s mother, Andrea Woffard, speaks out about the death of her son. Ellison, 19, was shot and killed in a motel parking lot. He was unarmed and the man who shot him was found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder and received the minimum sentence of 10 years. (Photo courtesy Matt Witt, Writers on the Range)
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If you think that race is only an issue in the country’s biggest cities, consider a murder trial that recently concluded in the small town where I live, in the Rogue Valley of southern Oregon.
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