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• St. Louis Official Sues City Over Tear Gas at Protest

  27-09-2018 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  A St. Louis official who joined protests after former Officer Jason Stockley was acquitted of murder last year in the shooting of drug suspect Anthony Lamar Smith is suing over the police response to the demonstrations, reports the Associated Press.Democratic Alderwoman Megan Ellyia Green alleges in the federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that police used tear gas on her without justification on Sept. 15, 2017, during a demonstration that followed Stockley's acquittal of first-degree murder in the dea
  
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• Former Texas Deputy Acquitted in Brutality Case

  27-09-2018 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  A former Harris County, TX, deputy constable accused of police brutality was found not guilty Wednesday by a Harris County jury, reports the Houston Chronicle.Jimmy Drummond, 50, was captured on police dash-cam video allegedly kicking the prone and handcuffed David Scherz Jr., then dropping his knee onto the man's back and neck.During the week-and-a-half-long trial, defense attorneys challenged the circumstances surrounding the incident that was on video, saying the veteran officer was a supervi
  
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• VA Man Convicted of Capital Murder in Deaths of Wife, Rookie Officer

  27-09-2018 22:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An Army staff sergeant was found guilty Wednesday of 17 charges including three capital murder counts in the fatal shooting of his wife and a Virginia police officer who was on her first shift, reports WTOP.Ronald Hamilton, 34, of Woodbridge, VA, was charged in connection with the February 2016 fatal shootings of his wife, Crystal Hamilton, and Officer Ashley Guindon, who was just hours into her first shift as a Prince William County police officer.Hamilton was found guilty of three counts of ca
  
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