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• LAPD to Make Body Camera, Patrol Car Videos Public

  20-03-2018 22:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Los Angeles Police Department's years-long practice of keeping video from body cameras and patrol cars under wraps will soon end after the agency's civilian bosses approved a policy Tuesday that requires the release of recordings in the future.The 4-0 vote by the Police Commission marks a dramatic about-face for a department that refused to release such footage even as it rolled out thousands of body cameras to officers across the city in recent years, reports the Los Angeles Times.The impli
  
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• Video: Minneapolis Officer Faces Murder Charge in Justine Damond Shooting

  20-03-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Minneapolis Officer Faces Murder Charge in Justine Damond ShootingMinneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor has been charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Justine Damond.Noor turned himself into the Hennepin County Jail Tuesday. He is being held on $500,000 bond, WCCO TV reports.Damond, 40, was fatally shot on July 15, 2017 after calling 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her south Minneapolis home.Noor shot the Aus
  
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• SWAT Trained SRO Fired On Maryland School Shooter, Stopped Attack

  20-03-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesA SWAT-trained school resource officer engaged and fired upon a school shooter at a Maryland high school Tuesday, ending an attack that critically wounded two students. The suspect was killed.Just before classes were set to begin Tuesday at Great Mills High School, 17-year-old student Austin Wyatt Rollins used a semiautomatic handgun to shoot a 16-year-old girl, who he had a prior relationship with, and a 14-year-old boy in the hallway, according to St. Mary's County Sheri
  
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• Murder Trial of Border Patrol Agent Accused of Shooting Across Border and Killing Mexican Teen Begins in Tucson

  20-03-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  The murder trial of a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of shooting across the international boundary into Mexico in 2012 and killing a teenager started with jury selection Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Tucson.Lonnie Swartz has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the killing of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez. The teenager was on a street in Nogales, in the Mexican state of Sonora, just across the border from Nogales, Arizona, the Associated Press reports.Prosecutors say Sw
  
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• Austin Police Handling Hundreds of Suspicious Package Calls Per Day

  20-03-2018 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesThe Austin Police Department has been overwhelmed with more than 1,200 calls about possible bombs and suspicious packages since a series of bombings has terrorized Texas’ capital city since early March. Within 24 hours, beginning at 8 a.m. Monday morning through 8 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Austin PD received 420 phone calls, according to the AP.The frenzy of activity comes after a fifth bomb exploded shortly after midnight at a FedEx distribution facility in Schertz,
  
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• Package Bomb Bound for Austin Explodes in FedEx Plant

  20-03-2018 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  A package exploded at a FedEx distribution center northeast of San Antonio shortly after midnight Tuesday. NBC's Pete Williams is reporting investigators have a "pretty good indication" that the package was bound for Austin, where four other package bombings have occurred in the past three weeks.The Federal Bureau of Investigation and The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is on scene at the facility in Schertz, Texas. ATF says no one was seriously injured, KXAN reports.Sch
  
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