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Filling up. And tonight, the staggering toll on the u. S. Economy and American Families. The dow plunging. And what the Federal Reserve chairman said about jobs that might never come back. The Disturbing Police confrontation under investigation tonight. The body camera images showing two white officers stopping two black teenagers accused of jaywalking. And what happens next. News coming in now from seattle. Protesters taking over a Police Station, seizing a sixblock area, calling it an autonomo...

The man filed a civil rights suit against the responding Wauwatosa officer.

The incident from 2018 involved an inaccurate tip about an black teenager robbing two elderly white women, one of whom was his grandmother.

The 2018 traffic stop stemmed from a robbery tip.

Akil Carter is suing Wauwatosa police claiming Wauwatosa officers violated his civil rights.

Theyre calling breonnas law, limiting these no-knock search warrants to cases involving an immediate threat of harm or death, which wasnt the case when this young woman was killed. david? >> all right, steve osunsami tonight. steve, thanks. we turn this evening to an abc news investigation with our abc stations. some eye-opening numbers when it comes to the arrests of african-americans across this country. what the numbers show. heres our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas now. >> repor...

>> this is my grandson! >> reporter: akil was handcuffed, detained and put in the back of a squad car. when he was finally released, police simply said this was a misunderstanding. no apologies. in the suburb of milwaukee where akil was detained, blacks are only 5% of the population, but accounted for 62% of arrests made in 2018. a rate 29 times higher than white arrests. akils encounter reflective of a broad pattern revealed in an abc news investigation with our owned stations. in 800 jurisdict...