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Tupac trial highlights decades of US police failures in solving the case

From The Guardian · () English

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  • Testimony in the murder trial of Tupac Shakur highlighted that police received information about the shooting soon after it happened.
  • Las Vegas police did not make an arrest until 27 years after the hip-hop star’s death.
  • The trial challenged longstanding explanations that witnesses’ lack of cooperation and gang culture prevented the case from being solved.

Police received information about Tupac Shakur’s killing almost immediately, but Las Vegas police waited 27 years before making an arrest.

That contrast became a central feature of a long-delayed murder trial that concluded this week, nearly three decades after the hip-hop star’s death.

For years, US law enforcement officials attributed the failure to solve the case to uncooperative witnesses and a gang culture summed up by the phrase “snitches get stitches.” Testimony in the trial, however, drew attention to how much officials knew about the shooting and how early they knew it.

snitches get stitches

· US law enforcement officialsThe phrase was cited as part of officials’ longstanding explanation for why witnesses did not cooperate in the investigation.
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