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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Bevan Hurley

Mother accuses police of standing by and doing nothing for 13 minutes as her son drowned in Tennessee river

Facebook / Kimberly Williams-Clabo

The mother of a Tennessee man who drowned after fleeing from police is suing the officers who allegedly watched him struggle in the water for 13 minutes while doing nothing to save his life.

Kimberly Williams-Clabo claimed in the lawsuit that four Knoxville Police Department officers prevented witnesses from going to the aid of Mika Wheeler Clabo, 30, as he became caught on vines in the Tennessee River last July.

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