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An Indiana man who admitted to straw-purchasing the handgun later used to kill Officer Ella French and critically wound her partner during a traffic stop last year was sentenced to 30 months in prison today. The sentence, below the 5-year maximum Jamel Danzy could have received, was handed down in a courtroom full of Chicago police officers after Elizabeth French, the mother of Ella French, addressed the court.

And parents of a special needs student seen pushed to the ground in a video posted on social media have declined a formal police investigation, Elmhurst police announced. The Dec. 8 incident in a York Community High School restroom involved five students, including a boy with special needs.

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