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Maegan Ball stands for a portrait in Saugus, Massachusetts. In December 2018, police were requested to make a wellness check on a man by his mother. Officers found him severely beating Ball. (Charles Krupa/AP)

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Tracing the death of a Cohasset man and police use of less-than-lethal force in a violent crisis

The 2018 attack in Cohasset, Massachusetts, is one of the most violent among the more than 1,000 deaths documented in an Associated Press investigation into common police use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them.

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