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• Video: 2 Officers Injured, Man Dead in Illinois Shootout

  23-03-2018 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: 2 Officers Injured, Man Dead in Illinois ShootoutAuthorities say two police officers were wounded and a man has died and in a shootout in Aurora, IL.The shooting happened around 10 p.m. Thursday. The Aurora Police Department says two special operations investigators followed a vehicle they'd spotted leaving a suspected gang house and pulled it over, reports WGN.Police say the driver fired at them and sped off before crashing and running away. Police say then the man and the investigators
  
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• Man Arrested for Driving 160 Mph on Indiana Toll Road

  23-03-2018 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Wisconsin man landed in the LaPorte County Jail after police say he was going 160 mph on the Indiana Toll Road, reports WTHR.Police say the Orange Dodge Challenger Hellcat passed an Indiana State trooper at a high rate of speed Tuesday night. Another trooper eventually stopped him. The driver of the Hellcat, identified as J. Jesus Duran Sandoval, age 38 of Lake Geneva, WI, was allegedly driving on an expired driver's license.Sandoval told police he was driving a bit more than 160 miles per hou
  
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• Family disputes California police account in shooting of black man - Reuters

  23-03-2018 22:40 via reuters.com
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  Family disputes California police account in shooting of black man
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  SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - The family of an unarmed black man shot to death by police officers in the backyard of his grandparents' house in Sacramento, California, disputes the police account that he had earlier been breaking windows, the family's ...
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  Sacramento police release video of fatal shooting of Stephon ClarkNBCNews.com
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• Sacramento Officers Receive Death Threats After Being Named by Attorney as Involved in Clark Shooting

  23-03-2018 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  The names of the two officers who shot Stephon Clark in Sacramento on Sunday were released Friday by a prominent civil rights attorney in Oakland. They are receiving death threats, according to ABC News.A representative from the law office of John Burris in Oakland named the two officers.The Sacramento Police Department declined to confirm the names. Department spokeswoman Officer Linda Matthew said the officers involved in the shooting have received "numerous" threats."Based on the threats we d
  
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• Video: Sacramento Police Release Body Camera Footage of Fatal Police Shooting

  23-03-2018 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Sacramento Police Release Body Camera Footage of Fatal Police ShootingThe Sacramento Police Department has released body camera footage capture by systems worn by two officers involved in the fatal shooting of an auto burglary suspect Sunday night.The department says, "Prior to the shooting, the involved officers saw the suspect facing them, advance forward with his arms extended, and holding an object in his hands. At the time of the shooting, the officers believed the suspect was pointi
  
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• Video: Protests of Sacramento Police Shooting Shut Down Freeway, Block NBA Arena

  23-03-2018 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Protests of Sacramento Police Shooting Shut Down Freeway, Block NBA ArenaDemonstrators protesting a fatal police shooting that occurred earlier this week briefly shut down I-5 and blocked a downtown arena before an NBA game Thursday night.The protests are over the shooting death of Stephon Clark, 22, a suspect in a string of vehicle break-ins. Clark was killed at the end of a foot pursuit involving two Sacramento police officers. He was reportedly unarmed at the time. He wa
  
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• When seconds count…

  23-03-2018 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There was a time when police departments handed officers a gun, a badge and the keys to a squad car and considered them fit for duty. But ask any police officer now, and they’ll likely tell you law enforcement isn’t so easy in today’s complicated world. “The job can be rough, and the hours can be long; and as 30-year law enforcement veteran, Lt. Patrick Martin, says, “There aren’t always a lot of thankyous that come with it.”In this demanding environment
  
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