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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will serve as a special prosecutor investigating cases of police killings in New York State.

In the wake of police killings in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland, the Justice Department under Barack Obama investigated specific police departments as a measure of accountability.

In the wake of police killings in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland, the Justice Department under Barack Obama...

The police killed him in a shootout, and searched his car, finding the corpses of Gonzales» children.

As the rally wrapped up, Ms. Mallory also plugged Gathering for Justice and a protest scheduled for June 2 to honor Ramarley Graham, an unarmed black youth police killed in his Bronx home in 2012.

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.

«I have spoken to the Garner family and we are outraged by the early reports of the police killed in Brooklyn today.

The authors propose that all law enforcement - related deaths — including people killed by police as well as police killed in the line of duty — be treated not just as criminal data but as a «notifiable condition,» and that they be reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) by public health and medical professionals and published on a weekly basis, as are a host of other conditions ranging from poisonings to pertussis to polio.

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The 11 children who were killed were studying in a nearby madrassa, or religious school, said Matiullah Zhman, a spokesman for Kandahar police.

Hours after the attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 11 children studying in a nearby religious school, police said.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the two blasts in the capital, which killed at least 26 people, including four police, and wounded 49 seriously, Hashmat Stanekzai, a senior police official, said.

In the wake of three bomb attacks in Austin, Texas this month that killed two people, police have received 150 calls from residents about suspicious packages since two blasts rocked the city on Monday, according to CNIn the wake of three bomb attacks in Austin, Texas this month that killed two people, police have received 150 calls from residents about suspicious packages since two blasts rocked the city on Monday, according to CNin Austin, Texas this month that killed two people, police have received 150 calls from residents about suspicious packages since two blasts rocked the city on Monday, according to CNN.

A «single, lonely, and disturbed» man, armed with a handgun, drove 11 hours to the home of the YouTube celebrity couple Gavin Free and Meg Turney in Austin, Texas — evidently intending to kill Free, according to a police report.

While crashing a vehicle into civilians recalls recent terrorist attacks, including one on a Christmas market in Berlin in 2016 that killed 12 people, German police and federal officials warned against jumping to conclusions about the incident on Saturday.

Two Virginia State Police officers, monitoring the situation, were also killed in a helicopter crash.

The killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri has catapulted the quiet, yet steady, militarization of police forces across the U.S. to global attention.

In the deadliest recent incident, a firefight erupted late Friday in the resort city of Mazatlan after a caller phoned police to report that an armed group had killed two meIn the deadliest recent incident, a firefight erupted late Friday in the resort city of Mazatlan after a caller phoned police to report that an armed group had killed two mein the resort city of Mazatlan after a caller phoned police to report that an armed group had killed two men.

Tamerlan was killed in a police shootout shortly after the marathon bombings.

According to data collected by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, approximately 11,506 people, which includes 6,300 suspects, have been killed during police chases in the U.S. from 1979 through 2013.

Police say six men were killed in separate incidents in three towns in Guerrero, while in Chihuhua, some 20 people have met violent deaths since Thursday.

Legal experts say a defense attorney's task to convince a jury that a client is legally insane is even more difficult in cases like that of Routh, who confessed to killing the men, apologized to the family and fled from police.

Alvear, 25, was identified by police on Monday as one of the 49 people killed by a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.

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.

The Metropolitan Police said more officers than usual would be on duty in the area throughout the march, which was held just days after a terror attack on Westminster that killed four people and injured 50.

The black voters in Philly, and I say this based on 30 years of picking juries and talking to them, are more likely to have a family member who is a police officer, a family member who is in jail, and a family member who has been killed or severely victimized.

In July, a shootout on a main avenue in Cancun left three injured, and a police commander was killed outside his home later that montIn July, a shootout on a main avenue in Cancun left three injured, and a police commander was killed outside his home later that montin Cancun left three injured, and a police commander was killed outside his home later that month.

And then in Dallas, five police officers killed while serving and protecting peaceful protesters targeted because they were police.

ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters)- Panicked callers to 911 during June's mass shooting in Orlando told police of buildings hit by stray bullets and wounded friends stuck inside the gay nightclub where a gunman pledging allegiance to Islamic State killed 49 people.

We all need to try as best we can to walk in one another's shoes, to imagine what it would be like to sit our son or daughter down and have the talk about how carefully they need to act around police because the slightest wrong move could get them hurt or even killed.

We were cruelly reminded of that with the recent deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two more black man killed in police incidents, this time in Louisiana and Minnesota.

The man accused of carrying out a three - week bombing spree that killed two people in Texas before blowing himself up as police closed in on him was a 23 - year - old unemployed man from suburban Austin, authorities said.

Authorities in Baton Rouge last week thwarted a planned attack on police officers days after the shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37 - year - old black man who was killed by police in an encounter that was largely captured on video and raised widespread concerns about the officers» actions.

In 2015, a Danish - born Muslim gunman killed two people in an attack on a debating event and a Copenhagen synagogue before being shot dead by policIn 2015, a Danish - born Muslim gunman killed two people in an attack on a debating event and a Copenhagen synagogue before being shot dead by policin an attack on a debating event and a Copenhagen synagogue before being shot dead by police.

The Spanish police say five suspects were killed in a counterterrorism operation in the town of Cambrils early Friday morning.

A driver with the San Francisco ridesharing service Uber was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter for striking and killing a 6 - year - old girl in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood on New Year's Eve, police and company officials said Thursday.

But police departments are on pace to kill 1,000 for the fourth year in a row, a Washington Post database shows.

There is 21 - year - old Howard University student Clifton Kinnie, who, in 2014, mobilized teenagers to organize against gun violence and register to vote after 18 - year - old Mike Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Two leaders of the rival Medellin cocaine ring, Jose Gonzalo Gacha and Pablo Escobar Gaviria, were killed several years ago as Colombian police officers and soldiers closed in on them.

Though the same inner - city neighborhoods remain the hardest hit, only one teen under the age of 18 in all of Miami and unincorporated Miami - Dade — the county's two largest policing districts — was killed by gunfire in the first six months of 2017.

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One person was killed and another injured in a shooting in Amsterdam, a major tourist hub, Dutch police said Thursday.

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.

In the hours after the shooting, people who knew Mr. Cruz described him as a «troubled kid» who enjoyed showing off his firearms, bragging about killing animals and whose mother would resort to calling the police to have them come to their home to try to talk some sense into him.

-- Two elderly New Jersey residents were killed when the vehicle they were riding in Tuesday afternoon flipped and crashed along the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

A man wanted in Fort Lauderdale for trying to kill his friend was arrested more than a thousand miles away — in Evansville, Indiana, police said Monday.

Last month, police arrested Joseph DeAngelo, the alleged Golden State Killer who is accused of killing multiple people across California in the 1970s and 1980s.

Bombs attached to cars were ETA's main mode of killing, but it also gunned down police, politicians and business people in targeted assassinations

She also called the local police in Parkland, Florida, after the 19 - year - old wrote online, «I want to kill people.»

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.

Investigators in Cambridge, Mass., on April 19, hours after Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was killed in a police shootout.

Anton Yelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new «Star Trek» films, was killed by his own car as it rolled down his driveway early Sunday, police and his publicist said.