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• Appeals Court Lets Suit by Michael Brown's Friend Continue

  27-07-2017 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's refusal to throw out a lawsuit questioning a Ferguson police officer's use of force against the man who was with Michael Brown when that officer fatally shot Brown three years ago.Tuesday's 2-1 ruling by an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel sided with Dorian Johnson in concluding that former officer Darren Wilson and ex-chief Thomas Jackson are not immune from such litigation. The court also found that Johnson sufficiently alleged that Wilson vi
  
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• UK Police: 'Reasonable Grounds' To Suspect Corporate Manslaughter In Grenfell Fire - NPR

  27-07-2017 22:21 via npr.org
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  UK Police: 'Reasonable Grounds' To Suspect Corporate Manslaughter In Grenfell Fire
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  Scotland Yard says "there are reasonable grounds" to suspect local authorities committed the crime of corporate manslaughter in the Grenfell Tower blaze that killed at least 80 people in June. In a letter sent to survivors and families of those killed ...
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• Police: Man tries to steal police car with officer in it - USA TODAY

  27-07-2017 20:49 via usatoday.com
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  Police: Man tries to steal police car with officer in it
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  FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A 20-year-old man was arrested after police say he tried to steal a car. It wasn't just any old car: It was a Fort Pierce, Fla., police patrol vehicle at the Fort Pierce Police Department with a police officer in it. It happened ...and more »
  
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• 29 arrests ordered in 'revenge rape' of Pakistani girl, police say - Washington Post

  27-07-2017 17:30 via washingtonpost.com
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  29 arrests ordered in 'revenge rape' of Pakistani girl, police say
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  The extended family members all lived within yards of one another, in a small village near a riverbank in Pakistan's largest province, Punjab. It was in this village, near the city of Multan, where the first of two rapes occurred. A daughter of the ...
  Pakistani police arrest 20 for ordering 'revenge rape'Aljazeera.com
  Pakistani police arrest 20 villagers over 'honor' rapeFox News
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• Minneapolis Officers Must Turn On Body Cameras for Any Call

  27-07-2017 02:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  Minneapolis police officers must turn on their body cameras when responding to any call, traffic stop, or self-initiated activity, Acting Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced Wednesday, in a key change to city policy in the wake of Justine Damond's shooting death."What good is a camera if it is not being used when it may be needed the most?" Arradondo said at a Wednesday news conference, where he and Mayor Betsy Hodges acknowledged some officers have not been using their cameras enough.In th
  
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• Baltimore PD Rebuilds Operations Units, Redeploys More Than 150 Officers

  27-07-2017 01:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  After dismantling special operations units throughout the Baltimore Police Department amid a patrol shortage and a high-profile gun squad scandal four months ago, Commissioner Kevin Davis has reassigned more than 150 police officers and supervisors back onto similar teams, reports the Baltimore Sun.The 21 new "District Action Teams" — two for each of the city's nine police districts, plus one each for the Pennsylvania Avenue corridor, the Monument Street corridor, and the Tri-District area
  
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• NYPD Officer's Daughter Is Born Three Years After His Death

  27-07-2017 01:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  NYPD Officer Wenjian Liu and partner Rafael Ramos were sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn on Dec. 20, 2014, when they were ambushed and fatally shot. Tuesday, two-and-a-half years after Liu's murder, his widow gave birth to their daughter.As Liu lay mortally wounded in a Brooklyn hospital in 2014, doctors asked his wife if she wanted his semen preserved so that she might someday have his child. She said yes, and conceived their child through artificial insemination, reports the New York Pos
  
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