Attorneys probing police shooting of Centerville man

A team of private attorneys says it will investigate whether a Brownsville police officer was racially profiling when she attempted to pull over a man who was later shot and killed during a police chase. The family of Kermith Sonnier Jr., 37, of Centerville, also claims the Rev. Jesse Jackson is alleging the man's civil rights may have been violated when he was killed by police May 5 off a dead-end road on the outskirts of Brownsville. [more]