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• Police arrest 2 after standoff; question man about officer's shooting - KMBC Kansas City

  14-12-2014 22:12 via kmbc.com
  
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  Police arrest 2 after standoff; question man about officer's shooting
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  Maria was arrested on a federal probation violation warrant, but police were also questioning him about the overnight shooting of the officer during a traffic stop on Interstate 35 near U.S. Highway 69. Police said the officer pulled the car over for a ...
  Police arrest and identify suspect in Sat. night police shootingfox4kc.com
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• Police: Arrest in shooting death of Auburn player Jakell Mitchell - 6abc.com

  14-12-2014 21:56 via 6abc.com
  
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  Police: Arrest in shooting death of Auburn player Jakell Mitchell
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  A 22-year-old man has been arrested on a felony warrant charging him with murder in Sunday's fatal shooting of Auburn football player Jakell Lenard Mitchell, police said. The shooting took place at the same off-campus apartment complex where two former ...
  Police arrest man in relation to slaying of Auburn TE Jakell MitchellNBCSports.com
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• IMPD identifies suspect in police-action shooting on Northeastside - Indianapolis Star

  14-12-2014 21:41 via indystar.com
  
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  IMPD identifies suspect in police-action shooting on Northeastside
  Indianapolis Star
  UPDATE: Police have identified the suspect involved in a police-action shooting Saturday night as 42-year-old Damon Moore, Indianapolis. He is in custody at Eskenazi Hospital and remains in stable condition Sunday morning, according to the Indianapolis ...
  Suspect shot by police on city's NE sideWRTV Indianapolis
  Suspect identified in officer involved shooting on near NE sideWISH-TV
  
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• Black Churches Pray in Protest of Police Slayings - ABC News

  14-12-2014 21:26 via abcnews.go.com
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  Black Churches Pray in Protest of Police Slayings
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  Congregants in African-American churches across the country wore black to Sunday services and prayed over the men in attendance in a symbolic stand against fatal police shootings of unarmed black men. Bishop T.D. Jakes told worshippers at The Potter's ...
  Local Black Churches Join Nation In Protests Against Police SlayingsCBS Local
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• NY Police Union Doesn't Want De Blasio At Cop Funerals - Gawker

  14-12-2014 21:21 via gawker.com
  
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  NY Police Union Doesn't Want De Blasio At Cop Funerals
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  New York City's largest police union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA) is encouraging its members to sign a form letter asking Mayor Bill De Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito not to attend their funerals if they are ...
  Police to De Blasio: Don't Attend My FuneralThe Atlantic
  Police Union Gets Nasty With De Blasio: Don't Attend Our Funerals, MayorGothamist
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• Victoria police officer investigated for tasing driver, 76 - Victoria Advocate

  14-12-2014 14:00 via victoriaadvocate.com
  Victoria police officer investigated for tasing driver, 76
  Victoria Advocate
  A Victoria police officer is under investigation after a 76-year-old man accused him of using excessive force during a traffic stop. The officer, Nathanial Robinson, 23, was placed on administrative duty Friday pending the outcome of an internal ...
  
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• Mt. Vernon police kill one in domestic dispute - Columbus Dispatch

  14-12-2014 13:47 via dispatch.com
  
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  Mt. Vernon police kill one in domestic dispute
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  Mount Vernon police shot and killed a person early yesterday while responding to a report of a domestic dispute, the police department said. The shooting happened at 1:38 a.m. at 14 Plaza Dr., police said. Police released no other information about the ...
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• Stun Guns Catch on Slowly With New Jersey Police - NBC 10 Philadelphia

  14-12-2014 13:24 via nbcphiladelphia.com
  
  Stun Guns Catch on Slowly With New Jersey Police
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  In June, Teaneck police used a stun gun to subdue an emotionally disturbed man, officials said. Englewood police pulled over a driver this year and used a stun gun on him when he refused to get out of his car. In another Englewood incident, officers ...
  
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• Tens Of Thousands March On NYPD Headquarters To Protest Police Killings - Huffington Post

  14-12-2014 13:17 via huffingtonpost.com
  
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  Tens Of Thousands March On NYPD Headquarters To Protest Police Killings
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  Tens of thousands of protesters streamed out of New York City's Washington Square Park on Saturday to protest the killings of unarmed black people by police officers, as part of the "Millions March NYC." The crowd began to wind its way through Manhattan.
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• Turkish police target media offices in raid - USA TODAY

  14-12-2014 11:57 via usatoday.com
  
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  Turkish police target media offices in raid
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  ISTANBUL — Turkish police arrested at least 23 people known to be close to a movement led by a U.S.-based moderate Islamic cleric in raids across the country on Sunday, the country's state-run news agency reported. The offices of Today's Zaman ...
  Report: Journalists, Police Detained in RaidsABC News
  Turkish police raid media outlets close to Gulen, detain 23 peopleYahoo News
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• Mexico's police overhaul may not curtail violence, corruption - Al Jazeera America

  14-12-2014 11:04 via america.aljazeera.com
  
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  Mexico's police overhaul may not curtail violence, corruption
  Al Jazeera America
  Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has a launched a proposal to overhaul the police force in Mexico, finally acting in response to the thousands of marchers protesting the deteriorated security system and disappearance of 43 students in Guerrero.
  
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• As Boston protests heat up Saturday, police make multiple arrests - Washington Post

  14-12-2014 10:21 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  As Boston protests heat up Saturday, police make multiple arrests
  Washington Post
  Authorities in Boston arrested 23 people involved in downtown protests Saturday over recent grand jury decisions involving white police officers shooting unarmed black men, according to news reports. The demonstrations started out orderly, but reports ...
  State Police arrest 23 protesters in BostonBoston Globe
  Police Arrest 23 During Boston ProtestsCBS Local
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• Thousands March Around Country Protesting Against Police Violence - NBCNews.com

  14-12-2014 10:09 via nbcnews.com
  
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  Thousands March Around Country Protesting Against Police Violence
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  More than 40,000 Americans rally during a national march against police violence on Dec. 13, 2014 in Washington D.C. The families of more than a half-dozen black men and boys who have been killed by police addressed the protesters demanding ...
  300 New Yorkers travel to DC for police violence protestNew York Post
  
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• 45 Arrested After Police Protests in SF Bay Area - ABC News

  14-12-2014 10:07 via abcnews.go.com
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  45 Arrested After Police Protests in SF Bay Area
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  Police arrested 45 people Saturday in the hours after thousands of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco and Oakland in largely peaceful protests, joining in a national demonstration against police killings. Protesters earlier in the day ...
  Photos: Thousands march in Oakland, S.F. to protest police brutalitySan Francisco Business Times (blog)
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• Thousands March Across Nation to Protest Police Killings of Black Men - NBCNews.com

  14-12-2014 09:12 via nbcnews.com
  
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  Thousands March Across Nation to Protest Police Killings of Black Men
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  The incident occurred Saturday night on the Brooklyn Bridge after two lieutenants observed a man attempting to throw a garbage can onto the roadway at officers escorting the demonstrators, police said at a press conference Saturday night. The ...
  Protesting police shootings: Demands for change sound out nationwideCNN
  US Protesters March Against Police Slayings of Black MenABC News
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• 4 Arrested During Police Protest In Hollywood - CBS Local

  14-12-2014 07:45 via losangeles.cbslocal.com
  
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  4 Arrested During Police Protest In Hollywood
  CBS Local
  HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Four people in Hollywood were arrested Saturday in the latest police protest over the fatal shootings of black men. Three women and a man were taken into custody for allegedly failing to disperse when ordered, according to ...
  Arrests Made as Hundreds March in LA, Hollywood Against Police KillingsNBC Southern California
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• Use of police body cameras on rise in Sacramento area - Sacramento Bee

  14-12-2014 05:01 via sacbee.com
  
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  Use of police body cameras on rise in Sacramento area
  Sacramento Bee
  The mobile field force operation of the Stockton Police Department has equipped its officers with body cams for over a year. Only two of the more than a dozen law-enforcement agencies in the greater Sacramento area equip police with body cameras meant ...
  Body cameras aren't going to fix policingLos Angeles Times
  Police cameras in focusThe Times Herald
  Houston-area police given $1.9M for body camerasKXA
  
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• Clashes With Police Mar NYC Protest March - NBC New York

  14-12-2014 04:53 via nbcnewyork.com
  
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  Clashes With Police Mar NYC Protest March
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  Thousands of people marched in Manhattan Saturday to protest the killing of unarmed black men by police officers -- a demonstration marred by sporadic clashes with police. Two officers were assaulted by protesters and hospitalized, police said ...
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• Sevierville Police name officer, man involved in fatal shooting - WBIR-TV

  14-12-2014 04:39 via wbir.com
  
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  Sevierville Police name officer, man involved in fatal shooting
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  According to a release, the City of Sevierville Police Department responded to a domestic dispute on Ernest McMahan Road just before 10 p.m. There, officers found Gorden sitting in a vehicle in the driveway near the home. The woman inside had called ...
  
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• Hundreds protest killings by police - Baltimore Sun (blog)

  14-12-2014 02:08 via baltimoresun.com
  
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  Hundreds protest killings by police
  Baltimore Sun (blog)
  Hundreds of people demonstrating against recent police killings of unarmed black men around the country marched peacefully through downtown Baltimore on Saturday afternoon as part of a national day of protest, shouting slogans, hoisting signs and at ...
  
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• Police arrest suspect in shooting at Portland, Ore., high school - USA TODAY

  14-12-2014 01:59 via usatoday.com
  
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  Police arrest suspect in shooting at Portland, Ore., high school
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  PORTLAND, Ore. — A 22-year-old man has been arrested by Portland Police Gang Enforcement Team officers in connection with the shooting Friday of four students outside a high school for at-risk youth. Investigators are still looking for two more men in ...
  Police ID suspect in Portland school shooting that injured fourWashington Post
  Man arrested after Portland shooting, 2 soughtYahoo News
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• Man shot by police officers during traffic stop - KPRC Houston

  14-12-2014 01:46 via click2houston.com
  
  Man shot by police officers during traffic stop
  KPRC Houston
  Reporter: THE GROUP IS CONDUCTING DAY OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY TODAY. A MAN IS RECOVERING AFTER HE WAS SHOT SEVERAL TIMES BY POLICE. THEY SAY HE WAS ACTING SUSPICIOUS IN THE ...
  
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• In Wisconsin, A Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads To New Law - NPR

  14-12-2014 00:58 via npr.org
  
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  In Wisconsin, A Decade-Old Police Shooting Leads To New Law
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  Race is at the forefront of the current debate over the police use of deadly force. But one shooting in Wisconsin highlights another factor at play when police shoot civilians — the lack of outside investigation. And the decade-old death has led to ...
  
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