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• Orlando Police Report A Break-In At Pulse Nightclub, A Month After The Massacre - NPR

  14-07-2016 23:49
  
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  Orlando Police Report A Break-In At Pulse Nightclub, A Month After The Massacre
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  Orlando police say a break-in occurred last night at the Pulse nightclub, where the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history occurred last month. It happened "just hours after police released the business back to its owners," as Reuters reports ...
  Police Report Break-in at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub After Feds Turn Over SiteNBCNews.com
  Police: Someone Broke Into Pulse NightclubABC News
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• Funeral held for Minnesota police shooting victim Philando Castile - CBS News

  14-07-2016 22:41
  
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  Funeral held for Minnesota police shooting victim Philando Castile
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  ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Faith leaders and musicians delivered messages of hope Thursday at a funeral for a black Minnesota man who was fatally shot by a suburban St. Paul police officer. Mourners filled the 3,000-seat Cathedral of St. Paul to pay their ...and more »
  
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• Video: Richmond Police Memorial Vandalized with Spray Paint

  14-07-2016 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Richmond Police Memorial Vandalized with Spray PaintCrews are expected to continue to clean up the vandalized Richmond Police memorial. Police are still investigating after the statue was vandalized late Tuesday night.As of Thursday morning, the statue was covered with a tarp and blocked off with orange cones to keep people away.Initially, someone spray painted the words "Justice for Alton" on the ground, which has been cleared. However, there is still more work to be done, NBC 12 TV
  
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• Video: NYPD Officers Cope with Dozens of Synthetic Marijuana K2 "Zombies"

  14-07-2016 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: NYPD Officers Cope with Dozens of Synthetic Marijuana K2 "Zombies"Dozens of half-dead people blindly staggered through the streets of a Brooklyn neighborhood known as “Zombieland” Tuesday morning, propping themselves up against fire hydrants and vomiting foam down their shirts.But the apocalyptic scene wasn’t for a movie. The victims had apparently smoked a bad batch of the “synthetic marijuana” drug known as K2 — and 33 people had to be hospitalized.&l
  
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• Video: Fresno Police Release Footage of Man Refusing to Show Officers His Hands Before Being Shot and Killed

  14-07-2016 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Fresno Police Release Footage of Man Refusing to Show Officers His Hands Before Being Shot and KilledThe Fresno (CA) Police Department released body camera video Wednesday showing Dylan Noble repeatedly ignoring officers’ demands that he stop moving back and forth at a gas station parking lot and show his hands before officers fired their weapons.Police Chief Jerry Dyer said the investigation into the shooting is still underway, and he has not made a decision whether it was justifie
  
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• Video: Dallas Police Overwhelmed by Calls and E-mails from People Wanting to Join Force

  14-07-2016 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Dallas Police Overwhelmed by Calls and E-mails from People Wanting to Join ForceIt was a brief appeal in a news conference earlier this week: "We're hiring," said Dallas Police Chief David Brown. "Get off that protest line, and put in an application."But already, people are taking the chief up on the offer.Department's recruiting team has received a flood of calls. On their Facebook page they wrote, "Thanks for everyone's interest in wanting to apply with our department. We will respond t
  
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• Video: Chicago BLM Activist Calls for Abolishing Police

  14-07-2016 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Chicago BLM Activist Calls for Abolishing PoliceA Black Lives Matter activist from Chicago argued during a heated “Kelly File” discussion earlier this week that American police forces should be abolished."Here are the solutions. We need to abolish the police, period. Demilitarize the police, disarm the police, and we need to come up with community solutions for transformative justice," said Jessica Disu, drawing some shocked reactions. The conversation started with Megyn
  
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• President Obama Holds Meeting with BLM Activists and Police, Reports No Progress

  14-07-2016 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Obama hosted a marathon meeting at the White House on Wednesday with police, Black Lives Matter activists, civil rights leaders, and elected officials, but emerged predicting more civil unrest in the wake of protests over shooting deaths of minorities by police and the assassination of five white Dallas officers.The president came out of the nearly four-hour-long meeting unable to report concrete progress, saying “there are still deep divisions about how to solve these problems&r
  
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• Federal Judge Throws Out Cell Phone Evidence Gathered by Stingray Surveillance Device

  14-07-2016 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For the first time, a federal judge has suppressed evidence obtained without a warrant by U.S. law enforcement using a stingray, a surveillance device that can trick suspects' cell phones into revealing their locations.U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan on Tuesday ruled that defendant Raymond Lambis' rights were violated when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration used such a device without a warrant to find his Washington Heights apartment, Yahoo reports.The DEA had used a stingr
  
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• Colorado Deputy Shoots Bullet Down Barrel of Attacker's Gun

  14-07-2016 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Jefferson County (CO) sheriff's deputy who was involved in an off-duty shooting has been cleared.The Aurora Sentinel reports that Arapahoe County prosecutors on Wednesday said Deputy Jose Marquez acted appropriately when he exchanged gunfire with attempted robbery suspects in an apartment parking lot in Aurora in January.Marquez was visiting his girlfriend when two armed suspects approached him with their guns drawn. He was shot multiple times in the chest and abdomen before the suspects ran a
  
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• 'Gunman killed, siege over' at Kenya police station - Aljazeera.com

  14-07-2016 20:23
  
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  'Gunman killed, siege over' at Kenya police station
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  Deaths reported after a police officer opens fire on fellow officers at a Kapenguria police station in western Kenya. 14 Jul 2016 18:25 GMT Kenya, Africa, Security. A Kenyan police officer went on a shooting spree on Thursday, killing seven of his ...
  Kenya station attacker was rogue officer, not Islamist militant: policeReuters
  Kenyan Police Officer Fatally Shoots Six ColleaguesVoice of America
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• The Fatal Police Shootings You Aren't Hearing About - Huffington Post

  14-07-2016 19:20
  
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  The Fatal Police Shootings You Aren't Hearing About
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  Villanueva was unarmed. The officers who shot him on July 4 in Fullerton, California, had been investigating an illicit car rally where participants raced and did tricks. The passenger, 18, has not been charged with a crime, according to the Fullerton ...and more »
  
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• Amid Protests Over Police Shootings of Black Men, Latinos Note a Disparity - New York Times

  14-07-2016 19:19
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  Amid Protests Over Police Shootings of Black Men, Latinos Note a Disparity
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  Participants in a protest against police brutality, at the California Highway Patrol offices in Santa Ana on Sunday. Credit Cindy Yamanaka/The Orange County Register, via Associated Press. The sheriff's deputies arrived at the home in San Antonio on a ...and more »
  
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• Bodycam Video Shows Police Shooting Of Unarmed 19-Year-Old In Fresno - NPR

  14-07-2016 18:00
  
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  Bodycam Video Shows Police Shooting Of Unarmed 19-Year-Old In Fresno
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  Police in Fresno, Calif., have released video footage of the shooting of an unarmed man last month. Dylan Noble, a white 19-year-old, was shot and killed by officers at a traffic stop in Fresno on June 25. Police said that they had pulled him over as ...
  Fresno Police Shooting Video Shows Dylan Noble Ignoring Orders to StopNew York Times
  By releasing video for police shooting, Fresno chief break ranks with other depart
  
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• Police Kill Too Many People—White and Black - TIME

  14-07-2016 17:47
  
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  Police Kill Too Many People—White and Black
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  John McWhorter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. It's unclear whether bigotry plays a role. In March, something happened in Kentucky that tragically seems, in light of what happened to Alton ...
  
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• Baton Rouge Police Sued Over Arrest of Peaceful Protesters - The Intercept

  14-07-2016 17:37
  
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  Baton Rouge Police Sued Over Arrest of Peaceful Protesters
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  The Baton Rouge Police Department and state law enforcement officials were sued in federal court on Wednesday for violating the First Amendment rights of dozens of protesters detained at demonstrations in the city last weekend. The suit, which asks for ...
  In Baton Rouge, Simmering Mistrust Divides Police, CommunityNPR
  Rights Groups Sue Over Police Tactics in Baton Rouge ProtestsNew York Times
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• Ex-Seattle Police Chief Condemns Systemic Police Racism Dating Back to Slave Patrols - Democracy Now!

  14-07-2016 17:10
  
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  Ex-Seattle Police Chief Condemns Systemic Police Racism Dating Back to Slave Patrols
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  former chief of the Seattle Police Department and the author of the new book To Protect and to Serve: How to Fix America's Police. This is viewer supported news. Donate. On Wednesday, President Obama met at the White House with law enforcement ...and more »
  
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• Broken police oversight system rarely punishes cops - Chicago Tribune

  14-07-2016 16:57
  
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  Broken police oversight system rarely punishes cops
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  Jimmie Lewis discusses the night in 2013 when an off-duty detective allegedly held a gun to his face and then got him arrested. Lewis complained to the Independent Police Review Authority, and an investigator told him his allegation was ruled credible.and more »
  
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• In Baton Rouge, Simmering Mistrust Divides Police, Community - NPR

  14-07-2016 10:58
  
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  In Baton Rouge, Simmering Mistrust Divides Police, Community
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  The Triple S Mart in Baton Rouge has become a shrine and a gathering place for activists. It's where Alton Sterling was shot and killed by police officers just over a week ago. Standing in front of a large mural of Sterling at the convenience store ...
  Baton Rouge Police Sued Over Arrest of Peaceful ProtestersThe Intercept
  Rights Groups Sue Over Police Tactics in Baton Rouge ProtestsNew York Times
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• North Carolina law blocks release of police recordings - CNN

  14-07-2016 04:01
  
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  North Carolina law blocks release of police recordings
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  (CNN) Citing a desire to balance "public trust" with the rights and safety of law enforcement officers, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed legislation this week that blocks the release of law enforcement recordings from body cameras or dashboard ...
  North Carolina Doesn't Want You to See Footage From Its Police Body CamerasMother Jones
  Police Camera Footage Will No Longer Be Made Public In North CarolinaHuffington Post
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• Obama Urges Civil Rights Activists and Police to Bridge Divide - New York Times

  14-07-2016 03:09
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  Obama Urges Civil Rights Activists and Police to Bridge Divide
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  President Obama said on Wednesday, in a meeting with 40 top officials in Washington, that tensions are likely to worsen. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times. Washington — President Obama said on Wednesday that the profound tensions between the ...
  Obama hosts meeting with police, civil-rights leadersWashington Times
  Obama balances respect and frustration with police, protestersCNN
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