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When @VP speaks tonight, think of Keith Cooper. A black man framed by white police officers in Elkhart, Indiana for a crime he did not commit.
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In 2014, after being presented with evidence demonstrating how Keith was misidentified, how DNA cleared him from the crime and implicated another person, and hearing testimony from the victims, the Indiana Pardon and Parole Board unanimously voted to issue Keith Cooper
Indiana's first ever pardon based upon actual innocence. After more than a year, that recommendation stood still on @VP's desk.
