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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Police in Senegal smashed the window of a car in which a top opposition leader was sitting and forced him from the vehicle Thursday, marking the latest unrest surrounding a likely challenger to the ruling party in elections next year. Videos recorded by his driver and posted ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A white Louisiana police officer was arrested Thursday for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man who was trying to flee police responding to a domestic disturbance call earlier this month, authorities said. After reviewing evidence and footage from officers' body-worn cameras, state troopers charged Shreveport ...
... heard saying “I have heart problems” after he was stunned again and before officers said another one would be coming if he didn’t cooperate. Police have said Williams was stunned three times, twice through direct body contact with the Taser. Once Williams appears to be detained, someone says, “Relax ...
Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Steven Alm said the CTE finding isn't surprising and doesn't change his conclusion that police were justified in using deadly force. "It's just a reminder for everybody that danger can come about, either because somebody just has that type of personality or they have ...
... t explain at the time, and it declined to comment this week. "The Department of Justice missed a golden opportunity to properly investigate the Memphis Police Department," Moore said in an interview. "It was just as corrupt then as it is now." Thaddeus Johnson, a former Memphis police officer who ...
... response to the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. The killing led to renewed public discussion of how police forces can treat Black residents with excessive violence, regardless of the race of both the police officers and those being policed. At Nichols' funeral ...
... in only a few months. But in the long run, Johnson does not believe specialized units and arrests alone can reduce crime. He blames aggressive police tactics for alienating communities the police are supposed to protect. “[Even] if you did prevent 50 homicides, how many people did you piss off ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A "high chance" of a mass shooting in Hollywood has been thwarted by police seizing a cache of guns and ammunition in a high-rise apartment where several rifles were pointed toward a nearby park, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Braxton Johnson was taken into custody ...
... Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, reminders that Nichols' family now joins a larger community of Black families fighting for justice for loved ones killed by police. That includes Tiffany Rachal. Her son Jalen was shot and killed by a Houston police officer last April. Tiffany Rachal, Mother of Jalen Randle ...
... have commanded public attention on a disturbingly frequent basis. In January, one woman was injured in a shooting at a Walmart store in Evansville, Indiana. Police said it could have been much worse if not for heroic actions by an employee and police. Officers arrived within minutes and fatally shot ...
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