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• Video: Georgia Officer Heading Home from Shift Killed in Wrong-Way Crash

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  VIDEO: Georgia Officer Heading Home from Shift Killed in Wrong-Way CrashA DeKalb County (Ga.) police officer is dead and two other people are in critical condition after a weekend crash involving a wrong-way driver in South Fulton County.The officer, Kevin Toatley, was a seven-year veteran of the department.Toatley was driving home 12:30 a.m. Saturday when police say he was hit head-on by a SUV going the wrong way on the freeway.Toatley's patrol car burst into flames, WSB TV reports.The SUV driv
  
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• Video: Demonstrators Protest NRA Police Shooting Championship in Albuquerque

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  VIDEO: Demonstrators Protest NRA Police Shooting Championship in AlbuquerqueFor the second straight year, demonstrators took to the streets of Albuquerque to protest the annual National Rifle Association's Police Shooting Championships.More than 50 people showed up. Many of the protestors dressed in black, representing local people killed by APD in recent years."We're having this March because we’re opposed to state violence. We view this competition as a glorification of the violence that
  
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• Video: California Deputies Shoot Wrong-Way Driver from Helicopter, Ending Vehicle Pursuit

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  VIDEO: California Deputies Shoot Wrong-Way Driver from Helicopter, Ending Vehicle PursuitSan Bernardino County, Calif., sheriff's deputies in a helicopter shot a home invasion suspect involved in a dangerous wrong-way chase and car crash on the northbound 215 Freeway Friday afternoon.On Saturday, the coroner's office identified the suspect as Nicholas Alan Johnson, 32, of Fontana.The suspect led authorities on a chase through surface streets in Fontana and San Bernardino before he started drivin
  
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• PERF Calls for Changes in Use-of-Force Training

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  The same research group that issued a blistering report last April on the fragmentation of St. Louis-area police departments has now issued an eye-opening report that calls for an overhaul of police training and culture.The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) produced the report, “Re-Engineering Training on Police Use of Force,” amid a period of introspection taking place within the nation’s law enforcement community since former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shot an
  
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• Minnesota Anti-Police Protesters Block Light Rail Before Vikings Game

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  Roughly 100 Black Lives Matter activists assembled in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday to protest what they said was excessive force by the transit police on a 17-year-old with autism.At about 10:15, protesters began to march west on the light rail tracks after a rally in the middle of the intersection of Lexington and University. The group staged a die-in on the tracks of the Green Line train that serves TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, where the Vikings hosted Detroit in a home opener. On Sunday m
  
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• Memo Ahead of Pope's Visit to U.S. Warns of Terrorists Dressed as Police

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  Pennsylvania State Police sent out an alert last week to its department and law enforcement partners as a reminder to be vigilant of persons who may try to impersonate police, fire and first responders in order to carry out an attack in the U.S., reports CBS News.Pennsylvania State Police confirm that a memo was sent out, but was not related specifically to Pope Francis' visit. Pope Francis is wrapping up his trip in Cuba and arrives in the U.S. on Tuesday.The official said there are no credible
  
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• Bullet Fragments Lead Arizona Officers to Freeway Shooting Suspect

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  The Phoenix freeway-shootings investigation took Arizona and federal law-enforcement officials along a path of evidence that started with bullet fragments, led to a 9mm handgun and culminated Friday with the arrest of a man who insists he is innocent.Two law-enforcement officials attributed the arrest to a combination of ballistics, shoe-leather police work and following the suspect, Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., on social media.Merritt faces a total of 28 felony charges: four counts each
  
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• ACLU Approves Las Vegas PD's Body Camera Policy

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  The Las Vegas Metro police policy of releasing body camera footage is "heading in the right direction," according to the American Civil Liberties Union.Chad Marlow, advocacy and policy counsel for the ACLU, said that Metro PD's policy, which will make most body camera footage readily available to the public, appears to be a balance between transparency and privacy.Metro says they won't charge for the viewing but will charge $12 per 15 minutes of work for copies of video that requires redaction t
  
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