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California officer guns down ‘mentally ill’ Ugandan refugee in ‘shooting stance’

September 30, 2016 Online Editor 0

EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — The fatal police shooting of a Ugandan refugee who drew something from his pocket and extended his hands in a “shooting stance” happened about a minute after officers in a […]

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Mississippi grand jury clears 3 Biloxi officers in fatal shooting

July 29, 2016 Online Editor 0

(AP) A grand jury has ruled three Mississippi police officers were justified in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man whose weapon turned out to be a BB gun. Biloxi Police Chief John Miller said […]

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Witness: North Carolina officer shot drug suspect six times in the back

March 1, 2016 Online Editor 0

RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) — A police officer fatally shot a man during a foot chase as he was trying to arrest him on drug charges early Monday afternoon, the Raleigh police chief said. In […]

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Chicago officer charged with murder in teen’s shooting

November 26, 2015 Online Editor 0

CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer accused of fatally shooting a black teenager was charged with murder Tuesday, just a day ahead of a deadline for the city to release a squad-car video […]

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Michael Thomas Slager charge with murder, shooting Walter Lamer Scott in Charleston

April 8, 2015 Online Editor Comments Off on Michael Thomas Slager charge with murder, shooting Walter Lamer Scott in Charleston

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder Tuesday, hours after law enforcement officials viewed a dramatic video that appears to show him shooting a fleeing man several times […]

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Failures by 3 governments preceded homeless man’s death

March 5, 2015 Online Editor Comments Off on Failures by 3 governments preceded homeless man’s death

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and TAMI ABDOLLAH LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mistakes and miscommunication by three governments on three continents over nearly 20 years led to a homeless man known as “Africa” being on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, where […]

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Details, questions emerge on homeless man shot by LA police

March 4, 2015 Online Editor Comments Off on Details, questions emerge on homeless man shot by LA police

By TAMI ABDOLLAH LOS ANGELES (AP) — For months before he was fatally shot by police, a man walked the streets of Los Angeles’ Skid Row, with few or no one he encountered knowing anything about […]

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LA police chief: Man killed on Skid Row reached for gun

March 3, 2015 Online Editor Comments Off on LA police chief: Man killed on Skid Row reached for gun

By TAMI ABDOLLAH LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police fatally shot a homeless man on Skid Row during a “brutal” videotaped struggle in which a rookie officer cried out that the man had grabbed his gun, the […]

 

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