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• Video: American Antifa Activist Faces 10 Years Over Attack on French Officers

  19-09-2017 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: American Antifa Activist Faces 10 Years Over Attack on French OfficersA transgender American student is among nine defendants facing up to 10 years in jail over a violent anti-fascist demonstration in France. The protesters are accused of smashing up and then setting fire to a police car while two officers were still inside during a march in Paris in May last year, the Daily Mail reports.The American, named only as 28-year-old Kara B., has already admitted throwing a m
  
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• GA Tech Student Raising Funds for Campus Police After Monday Riot

  19-09-2017 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Georgia Tech student has launched an online fundraising effort to aid campus police officers affected by Monday night’s riots.What began as a peaceful vigil in memory of fellow student Scout Schultz devolved into mayhem and a police vehicle was set ablaze.“Two GTPD officers were injured in the ensuing melees and two GTPD cruisers were torched,” wrote Phillip Yamin, an electrical engineering major in the class of 2019, who started the online effort. It’s so far rais
  
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• Court Rules Against Seattle Officers in Use-of-Force Policy Lawsuit

  19-09-2017 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday unanimously voted to uphold the Seattle Police Department's policy that regulates the use of force by officers, dismissing the argument that it infringed on the cops' Second Amendment rights."The City of Seattle has a significant interest in regulating the use of department-used firearms by its police officers, and the [Use of Force Policy] does not impose a substantial burden on the Second Amendment right to use a firearm for the core lawful pu
  
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• 2 Officers Injured in Rioting at Georgia Tech, 3 Suspects Charged

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  Two officers were injured and three people face charges after rioting broke out at Georgia Tech following a vigil for a student fatally shot by officers, a university spokesman said Tuesday.Police shot and killed Scout Schultz, 21, Saturday night after the fourth-year student called 911 to report a person with a gun who was possibly intoxicated, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.Police say Schultz was shot after the student refused to comply with police commands to drop a knife and advanc
  
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• Protests Expected to Resume Tonight in St. Louis, Following Quiet Monday

  19-09-2017 21:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesProtesters chanting "free our people" gathered outside the jail in downtown St. Louis Monday but there was no new rioting.Demonstrators outside the jail late Monday criticized authorities for keeping some of those arrested in jail for nearly 24 hours after they were taken into custody. Police said more than 120 people were arrested during Sunday's protests over the acquittal of a former police officer in the killing of a suspect.Hundreds of riot police mobilized downtown l
  
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• Chief Says Minneapolis Police Body Camera Usage Up After Policy Change

  19-09-2017 21:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  Minneapolis police officers are using their body cameras more than they did before the department changed its policy following the fatal July officer-involved shooting of a woman who called 911, the city’s police chief said Monday.Chief Medaria Arradondo changed the policy to require his officers to turn on their body cameras when responding to any call. The change came after an officer fatally shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond. She had called to report a possible sexual assault behind her
  
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• Part-Time NY Police Station Targeted by Gunfire

  19-09-2017 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  A part-time police station in Syracuse, NY, has become a target for gunfire again.The shatterproof windows of the new Syracuse police substation at Skiddy Park are covered with dents and cracks from gunshots. The number of bullet marks has multiplied to more than three dozen since the station opened in June, indicating repeated shootings, Syracuse.com reports.Sgt. Richard Helterline, a police spokesman, did not know when the station was fired upon, or how many separate incidents there have
  
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• Why police shoot to kill - CNN

  19-09-2017 19:46 via cnn.com
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  (CNN) Another fatal police shooting has added ammunition to the national debate over whether police are too quick to use deadly force. This time it happened on the campus of Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where Scout Schultz, 21, a fourth-year computer ...
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• Adler to be Appointed Bureau of Justice Assistance Director

  19-09-2017 16:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President Donald Trump has announced he intends to appoint Jon Adler to head the Bureau of Justice Assistance in the Department of Justice.Adler is president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Foundation and former president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA).In his law enforcement career, Adler served as lead criminal investigator and chief tactical and firearms instructor for the United States Attorney’s Office in the southern district of New Yor
  
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• Video: More than 80 Protesters Arrested in St. Louis; Officers Assaulted with Chemicals, Rocks

  19-09-2017 03:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: More than 80 Protesters Arrested in St. Louis; Officers Assaulted with Chemicals, RocksMore than 80 people were arrested Sunday after a third night of demonstrations in St. Louis over the acquittal of a former police officer who had been charged with first-degree murder, reports CNN.Arrests came after police officers were assaulted and "a concentrated area" was hit with vandalism including broken windows, broken sidewalk flower pots and overturned trash cans, acting Police Commissioner La
  
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• Attempted Sheriff's Car Thief Nabbed Twice by Same WA K-9

  19-09-2017 03:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  A would-be car thief who allegedly tried to steal a Thurston County (WA) Sheriff's Office patrol car was stopped by a sheriff's K-9 that was still in the car Saturday, reports KING-TV.The sheriff's office said K-9 Jaxx and his handler, Deputy Bagby, were dispatched to a business in Lacey for reports of a disorderly subject who might have a gun. It was later determined the suspect had tried to steal multiple vehicles in the parking lot, including ones that had people inside them, according to the
  
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• MN Police Officer Hospitalized After Extricating Barricaded Suspect

  19-09-2017 03:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Duluth police officer was hospitalized Saturday and underwent surgery after injuring his arm trying to extricate a suspect who was barricaded in a home in West Duluth, MN, reports the Duluth News Tribune.Patrol Officer Logan Goss was part of a police team serving a search warrant Saturday morning on a suspect who had barricaded himself in someone else's home on 58th Avenue West, a Duluth police spokesman said Sunday.Goss cut his arm on glass during the effort and underwent surgery to repair te
  
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• WI Law Enforcement Memorial Vandalized

  19-09-2017 03:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  The law enforcement memorial monument outside the Capitol in Madison, WI, was vandalized during the night Friday night, with writing spelling out "#Justice4AnthonySmith."The writing references the St. Louis riots that followed the acquittal of former police officer Jason Stockley in the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, reports WISC-TV.Capitol Police were investigating the incident. 
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• DOJ Halts Ongoing Review of Milwaukee Police Department

  19-09-2017 02:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  A federal review of the Milwaukee Police Department has been halted with the retooling of a program once focused on improving trust between police and communities, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.The move effectively ends the U.S. Department of Justice's collaborative reform initiative as it has existed since 2011. The program's focus has been shifted to providing training on active shooters, dismantling gangs and other criminal investigations.Cities such as Milwaukee, which are currently
  
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• TX Motor Officer Dies of Injuries from Escort Crash

  19-09-2017 02:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Police Officer Elias "Sonny" Martinez succumbed to injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash one week earlier while escorting permitted loads on Gulf Freeway, in the area of FM 646, in League City, TX, according to odmp.org.He was passing the trucks in the escorted convoy when he laid his motorcycle down in an attempt to avoid a collision. He struck the rear of one of the trucks, causing him to suffer severe injuries. He was flown to Hermann Memorial Hospital where he remained until succumbing to
  
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• Man Charged With Attempted Murder for Stabbing NY Officer

  19-09-2017 02:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Rochester, NY, man is facing attempted murder charges after police say he stabbed an officer Thursday evening, reports WHEC.According to Rochester police, officers were called to Louise Street around 7:50 p.m. for a report of a stabbing. At the scene, police say they found two people who were injured, and then officers came to the aid of two people who said they were locked inside a home and a man with a knife was trying to get in.Police say officers were able to force their way into the resid
  
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• D.A. Asks to Stop Release of CA Cop Killer Suspect Report

  19-09-2017 01:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office requested the L.A. Board of Supervisors continue to keep secret a report that details how closely probation officers supervised a gang member charged with the murder of a Whittier, CA, police officer, reports KFI AM.The Board had considered making the report public last week but were advised not to do so until County attorneys could discuss the matter with the Supervisors in a closed-door meeting.After that meeting other County officials said pro
  
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• Video: 2 OK Officers Shot Serving Search Warrant

  19-09-2017 00:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: 2 OK Officers Shot Serving Search WarrantTwo Chickasha, OK, police officers were shot while serving a search warrant at a home near East Country Club Road and U.S. 81 in Chickasha Sunday afternoon, and one officer was flown to the hospital.The shooting suspect, who was also injured, barricaded himself inside the home for several hours, then later surrendered without further incident, reports KAUZ.One of the two officers, whose names have not been released, remained hospitalized Monday, re
  
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