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In fact, the false Ferguson narrative stuck because of concern over a distressing pattern of other police killings of unarmed African American men and boys around the time of Brown's death.
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After a preliminary investigation, Police chief Sylvia Moir said that the collision that killed 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg wasn't Uber's fault and the accident «would have been difficult to avoid» regardless of whether the other car was autonomous or human - driven.
A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.
However it's frustrating to see that African Americans and Native Americans are being killed at significantly higher rates than any other group, especially when the police officers responsible for those deaths — those of Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and Eric Garner to name a few — rarely face criminal charges.
CARACAS Rogue Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Perez was killed in a police operation on Monday along with six other anti-government militants, the interior minister said on Tuesday, spurring opposition complaints of human rights violations.
But the suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, told investigators that he and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, who was killed in a shootout with the police, ultimately decided to use pressure - cooker bombs and other homemade explosive devices, the officials said.
About 400 worshippers were attending the service when two bombers carrying assault rifles stormed the church, triggering a gun battle in which one assailant was killed by police guards and the other opened fire at worshippers and detonated his explosives vest.
This statistic rang true as I turned on my computer Saturday evening, scrolled through my Twitter feed, and saw #Ferguson, #MikeBrown, and other references to a police shooting where an unarmed teenager was killed in suburban St. Louis.
More than 2,000 other people have also been killed in drug - related crimes and thousands more murdered in unexplained circumstances, according to police data.
Three police officers were killed and three others were injured on Sunday when a gunman opened fire on them while they were on duty in Baton Rouge.
as statistics clearly show, less than 20 % of the people killed this year by police have been black... but, the media and the race baiters continue to make a big issue whenever the victim is black... what about the other 80 %?
especially when statistics clearly show that there is no big conspiracy going on... only 20 % of police killings are perpetrated against black people....80 % against other races....
You can't just handwave the poor police training stuff with the «humans have been killing each other for a long time!»
«Four people were killed and six others injured when the bombs they were making exploded in a house at Baisnabnagar village,» Anuj Sharma, West Bengal additional director general of police, told AFP.
The brutal killings this week of four young men in this Long Island community resemble other homicides over the past year that police say were carried out by MS - 13, one of the largest street gangs in the U.S.
WCBS 880 story on BP Adams urging family members to connect police officers who have substance abuse problems to treatment, after an off - duty officer who was allegedly drunk driving killed a man in Williamsburg and injured three other people.
Addressing the grand jury decision to not indict the police officer who caused Garner's death, Sharpton «connected the dots» of other cases of African Americans or Latinos killed by police, from Anthony Baez and Abner Louima to Michael Brown and Akai Gurley, urging action.
For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.
Suffolk police, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies responded to suspected gang killings by beefing up their presence in Central Islip, Brentwood and other Long Island communities where MS - 13 is active.
«We also lost the other day a New York state police officer in upstate New York — this trooper who was doing his duty and walking into a domestic violence situation to help and was killed.»
One policeman has been killed while three others got injured during an attack on Kolo Police Station in Ogbia LGA of Bayelsa State, by suspected oil thieves.
«The standards that apply to every other municipal employee should apply to New York City police officers who have the power to kill,» Torres said.
Vance and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton called a press conference to blast a decision by Apple not to help investigators hack into an encrypted iPhone used by Syed Farook, who killed 14 and injured 22 others in San Bernardino, Ca.
«The Nigeria Police Force hereby implores members of the general public to disregard and discountenance the claim of plot by the IGP against the Senate President as a ruse, unfortunate and an attempt to divert Police investigation into the killings of more than Eleven (11) innocent people from kwara State and other States of the Federation in the recent past by the killer squad who operate under the guise of a cult group.
A police officer was killed and five other officers were among those injured, according to CBS News.
Suspected militants have killed three police officers and wounded five others in an attack in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the interior ministry says.
According to the statement, «To achieve success of the operations, the Police Special Tactical Force will be proactive, work on actionable intelligence already at the disposal of the Nigeria Police Force, and carry out massive deployment, and twenty four (24) hours surveillance and patrol, continuous raids of identified and other suspected hideouts of the assailants, with a view to arrest promptly the attackers and their sponsors to prevent further loss of lives and nip in the bud the senseless killings and other criminalities in the general area.
The family of a woman shot and killed by Syracuse police in February has filed a notice of claim against the city that alleges, among other things, that Sahlah Ridgeway was taken to a far - away hospital instead of the one closest, allowing her to bleed to death en route.
Some police officers were mistakenly killed by police fire, who mistook them for armed robbers while others were also stabbed to death in line of duty.
A state Supreme Court justice overseeing a drug case involving the man charged with killing a NYPD police officer last month said de Blasio should «look into a mirror» before blaming others for the officer's death.
But he added that there has been little evidence of progress on the Government's promise to reduce the number of cyclists and other road users killed or injured on our roads every year and described reductions in road policing as «very worrying».
They can do it in terms of planting evidence, and in the most extreme cases they can do it in terms of killing people,» Clarkson added, referring to police - involved shootings and other fatal incidents.
Two shootings on the J'Ouvert parade route before dawn on Monday killed Borel and Poyau and injured several others, including a 72 - year - old woman who was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the arm, police said.
Following incessant attacks and alleged killings by Fulani herdsmen on indigenes of Ossissa Community and others in Kwale area of Delta State and war songs of reprisals on northerners by youths, Delta State Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Zanna has paid an operation visit to the community and held discussions with stakeholders.
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The other 19 are: 7/7 hero Paul Dadge; TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson and her former husband Lance Gerrard - Wright; former FA executive director David Davies; Shaun Russell, whose wife and daughter were killed in 1996; former cavalry officer James Hewitt; ex-Labour cabinet minister Tessa Jowell; Sara Payne, mother of murdered Sarah Payne; celebrity Abi Titmuss; former Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten; former MP George Galloway; Michelle Milburn, who is reportedly a theatrical agent; Colette Bos; singer Dannii Minogue and her brother, Brendan Minogue; police officer Dan Lichters; Cornelia Crisan; celebrity Calum Best; and Meg Matthews, ex-wife of former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher.
Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed six persons killed, while four others were injured in Southern Kaduna, yesterday, when gunmen struck in Bakin Kogi, Kanikon Chiefdom...
The Plateau States Police command has confirmed that 25 people were killed and two others injured as suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked a village in Miango, Bassa...
The former mayor said that although some of the protesters «were entirely legitimate,» others were «horrible, yelling «kill the police.»»
The Borno State Police Command said on Monday that 29 people were killed and 84 others injured in Easter Day multiple attacks by Boko Haram.
LAWRENCE, L.I. — Two people were arrested after a fiery multi vehicle crash in Nassau County killed two others Wednesday morning, police said.
Former and current law enforcement chiefs and other experts predicted that Sunday's shooting would alter the training at many police forces to include more of a focus on the threat posed by high - rise snipers or others who kill from long distances.
Capping off a weekend of inflammatory comments after the Dallas police shooting, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani called Black Lives Matter «inherently racist» and «anti-American» — and incorrectly claimed black children have «a 99 % chance» of killing each other.
A gunman killed three police officers and wounded three others in Louisiana's capital, Baton Rouge, just days after the police shooting of a black man there sparked nationwide protests, one of which led to the massacre of five Dallas policemen.
Led by Graham and family members of other New Yorkers killed by police, demonstrators marched over the Brooklyn Bridge after police cleared the span of any traffic.
«Mr. President should note that our organization has a comprehensive lists of the names and places of all our killed ones and their suspected killers, many of which we have previously given to the police and other security agencies.
Mayors and other top city officials routinely attend funerals for police killed in the line of duty, which are rare but somber occasions in New York City.
«The first suspect, Morris Ashwe 36 yrs Native of Mbajima Village Katsina Ala LGA Benue State confessed and admitted to have been supplying firearms and ammunition to the notorious and most wanted vicious and notorious gang leader of militia, murderers and kidnappers Terwase Akwaza aka Ghana who was declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force for the merciless killings of several innocent persons and wanton destruction of properties worth Millions of Naira, at ZakiBiam in Benue State on 20th March, 2017 and for other violent crimes such as Culpable Homicide, Mischief by Fire and Criminal Conspiracy and the killing of Mr. Deneen Igbana (late) the Special Adviser on Security to the Governor of Benue State.
«The various lengths to which President Buhari has gone to end the spate of killings, such as mobilising state resources against the attackers, approving the setting up of new police and army formations in the affected areas, and the recruitment of thousands into the police and other arms of the military, are a few of the several steps taken which a more reasonable opposition will acknowledge.
A «lone wolf» attacker in a rented pickup truck struck and killed eight people in Lower Manhattan and injured 11 others in what was described as «an act of terror» by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Police Commissioner James O'Neill on Tuesday, the deadliest on record in New York City since 9/11.