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By CHRIS POWELL When he peremptorily fired the Hartford police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill man who was walking through his neighborhood with a long knife and was refusing police commands to drop it, Mayor Arunan Arulampalam last week worsened a bad situation and probably increased city government’s financial liability. Accountability terrifiesContinue reading “By firing cop in shooting, did Hartford mayor yield to politics?”