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• Video: Baton Rouge Officers Cleared by AG in Shooting of Alton Sterling

  27-03-2018 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Baton Rouge Officers Cleared by AG in Shooting of Alton SterlingThe Louisiana Attorney General’s office will not file charges against the two Baton Rouge Police officers who fatally shot Alton Sterling.Attorney General Jeff Landry made the announcement Tuesday morning after meeting with Sterling’s family.The decision comes nearly a year after federal authorities closed their investigation into the shooting, which was captured on cellphone, surveillance and body cam video, and
  
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• New Washington Law Gives First Responders PTSD Benefits

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  Under a new Washington state law signed by Governor Jay Inslee Friday, the Department of Labor and Industries can now pay worker’s compensation claims for first responders who suffer PTSD from their work experiences.In the past, those claims were denied unless the illness could be attributed to a single incident, said Michael White, legislative liaison for the Washington State Council of Fire Fighters.“I think this allows for firefighters and cops to be fixed when our job breaks us,&
  
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• California Justice Department to Oversee Investigation of Sacramento Police Shooting

  27-03-2018 23:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  California's Department of Justice will oversee a Sacramento police investigation into the shooting death of Stephon Clark, a suspect who reportedly led two officers on a foot pursuit, refused police commands to show his hands, and was shot and killed because officers thought he had a gun. A cellphone was found at the scene after the shooting and it apparently was mistaken for a gun by the officers.Speaking at a news conference, state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra and Sacramento Police Chief Daniel
  
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• Bill to Require Background Checks for Ammo Purchases Introduced in Congress

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  Embed from Getty ImagesOn Monday, Connecticut U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) announced that they introduced the Ammunition Background Check Act of 2018. The proposed bill would require instant background checks for the sale of gun ammunition.Right now under federal law, felons, domestic abusers or people who are deemed mentally dangerous are banned from buying a gun or ammunition. However, because federal law does not require a backgroun
  
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• Baton Rouge Mayor, Police Chief Announce Internal Investigation of Sterling Shooting

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  Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome and Police Chief Murphy Paul held a joint news conference Tuesday to explain to the public the next steps in the investigation of the Alton Sterling shooting following the state attorney general's announcement that his office will not charge the officers.Broome began by expressing condolences to the Sterling family. She said it was "unfortunately lengthy, bureaucratic process" leading up to Louisiana Attorney Jeff Landry's decision to not charge the tw
  
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• Sheriff: Maryland High School Shooter Died by Shooting Himself

  27-03-2018 02:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  Austin Wyatt Rollins, the 17-year-old who opened fire on classmates at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland last week, injuring one and killing another, died by shooting himself in the head, officials investigating the case said Monday.According to details released by the St. Mary's County sheriff's office, Rollins parked his car at 7:50 a.m. and walked through the school's main entrance two minutes later, reports the Baltimore Sun.At 7:57 a.m., he approached classmate Jaelynn Willey, 16
  
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• Video: Ohio Officers Save Choking Baby

  27-03-2018 02:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Ohio Officers Save Choking BabyBody cam footage shows two police officers in Shaker Heights, OH, rescuing a choking baby, as the mother's vehicle was stopped in the middle of traffic.Officers Ryan Sidders and Alex Oklander saw the mother Tamica Pruitte's vehicle with its emergency lights blinking and pulled up behind it to offer help, reports said."The baby had what seemed to be milk coming out of her mouth and nose," Oklander told Fox 8 Cleveland. "That's when we administered the back th
  
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• FBI Agent Dies of Brain Cancer Linked to 9/11 Attack on Pentagon

  27-03-2018 01:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For 10 weeks after 9/11, FBI Special Agent Melissa S. Morrow spent hours upon hours sifting through the toxic terrorist crash site at the Pentagon.Fifteen years later, she was diagnosed with brain cancer. Morrow, 48, died Thursday in what federal officials called a line-of-duty death due to her exposure to the poisons unleashed by the fiery airliner crash in the nation's capital, reports the New York Daily News."Strength & courage come in many forms; most give some, some gave all," tweeted h
  
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• Jurors Convict 35-Year-Old of Killing New Orleans Police Officer

  27-03-2018 01:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A man accused of killing a New Orleans police officer in 2015 was convicted Saturday, as jurors rejected his insanity defense.After a six-day trial, the jury deliberated just 66 minutes before finding 35-year-old Travis Boys guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 46-year-old Daryle Holloway, a 22-year veteran officer. Boys had pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, reports the Associated Press.Holloway was shot in a police SUV in June 2015 as he was transporting Boys to
  
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• Video: 2 Texas Officers Injured Responding to 911 Call, Suspect Dead

  27-03-2018 00:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: 2 Texas Officers Injured Responding to 911 Call, Suspect DeadOne police officer was shot and a second was hurt while running for safety after a gunman fired at them from inside a southeast Austin, TX, home Sunday night. The SWAT team then reportedly fatally shot the suspected shooter as he tried to run away from the home with a woman.Austin PD says officers were called to a duplex on Ponciana Drive at 10:50 p.m. when someone called 911 and was disconnected. Officers knocked on one side of
  
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• Video: Civilians Come to Aid of Arizona Officer in Struggle with Suspect

  27-03-2018 00:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Civilians Come to Aid of Arizona Officer in Struggle with SuspectJustin Erickson and another didn't think twice about jumping into action to help a Chandler, AZ, police officer arrest 32-year-old Mathew Martinez, who was wanted for drugs and shoplifting."It was super clear that he was resisting arrest,"  Erickson told AZ Family. "He wasn't going to go down without a struggle."According to Erickson, Martinez and the officer were rolling around on the ground."I stoo
  
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• Anti-Police Activists Get Say in Chicago Police Reforms

  27-03-2018 00:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  Black Lives Matter, an activist group that wants to defund the Chicago Police Department, and a coalition of other anti-police community groups have won a seat at the table as the city of Chicago and the state attorney general's office hash out a consent decree that would guide police reforms.The agreement comes on the heels of three lawsuits filed last year against the city, urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to allow a federal judge to oversee an overhaul of the Police Department in the wake of an Obam
  
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• French Politician Arrested for Celebrating Death of Officer at Hands of Terrorist

  27-03-2018 00:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  A French far-Left politician has been arrested for apparently celebrating the death of a gendarme hailed as a hero for offering himself in place of a hostage taken by an Islamist gunman.Stéphane Poussier was detained after tweets posted from his account said: “Every time a gendarme gets whacked… I think of my friend Rémi Fraisse,” an environmental protester who died after police threw a concussion grenade during demonstrations in 2014.“And this ti
  
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