police killing
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TLC’s T-Boz Demands Justice for Cousin Killed by Ill. Police
T-Boz wants justice for her mentally ill 25-year-old cousin who was shot 18 times by Peoria, Ill., police after officers said surveillance footage showed him committing armed robbery at the First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust. But according to the singer, the officers’ stories aren’t matching up and have been changing over the last couple of…
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Chicago Cop Who Killed College Student and Innocent Bystander Will Face No Charges
A Chicago police officer who shot and killed a college student and his downstairs neighbor by mistake will face no charges in the two deaths. The Cook County District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute the officer on Friday, saying that there was insufficient evidence that he was not acting in self-defense. On the day after…
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Pasadena, Calif., Man Dies in Police Custody After Being Tased
Pasadena, Calif., police quickly released grainy security video and audio from a 911 call from the family of a man who died in their custody after being restrained and tased early Friday morning. Although authorities have yet to release the name of the dead man, relatives have identified him as Reginald “Junior” Thomas, a father of eight.…
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Hillary Clinton Speaks ‘Directly to White People’ in Wake of Police Shooting: ‘This Is Not Who We Are’
Calling in to The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton weighed in on the police shooting of Terence Crutcher, saying that “systemic racism” needs to be addressed, and a part of that is “speaking directly to white people.” “This horrible shooting—again. How many times do we have to see this in our country?” Clinton…
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Gazebo Where Tamir Rice Was Fatally Shot Headed to Chicago Museum
The gazebo in Cleveland under which 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a police officer is expected to be dismantled at the beginning of this week and sent to a Chicago museum to be displayed, the Associated Press reports. As the newswire notes, the gazebo became a makeshift memorial to the boy, whose…
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NYPD Shooting of Motorist Caught on Video; Cop Shoots After 1 Second
Alas, video has confirmed the truth once again. An off-duty New York City police officer waited about one second before shooting and killing a driver in what is being termed a “road rage” incident on Monday, reports the New York Post. The outlet obtained exclusive video of the confrontation on Friday, showing Officer Wayne Isaacs…
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Wannabe Tulsa, Okla., Deputy Who Killed Unarmed Black Man: ‘I’ve Been Condemned’
The volunteer Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy who killed an unarmed black man last year said he’d “pretty much been condemned,” and says he doesn’t expect to survive his four-year jail sentence. Robert Bates, 74, told NBC News from jail that shooting Eric Harris during an April 2, 2015, sting operation in Tulsa, Okla., was a “horrible…