43 m. ago Was the Black Lives Matter rebellion all for nothing? It may feel like that, but I have seen reasons for hope | Jason Okundaye

It is easy to look back at 2020 and feel aggrieved, even fooled. But in the British city where slaver Edward Colston’s statue was pulled down, I found cause for optimismIt has been five years since George Floyd, a Black man who lived in Minneapolis, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. The killing, captured in a distressing 10-minute video that quickly flooded social media timelines, sparked something that felt like an international revolution: protests took place across the world, forcing countries and cities to reckon with their present and historical treatment of Black people.In Britain, protests reached fever pitch when activists in Bristol toppled a statue of Edward Colston, the slave trader and deputy governor of the Royal African Company, and hurled it into the harbour. Bristol, once a major slave-trading port, had maintained a veneration of Colston that was increasingly divisive. The statue in particular had been a key focus of tensions: attempts to add a s...

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7 h. ago Moment biker riding with dog strapped to her is pulled over by shocked police officer

A motorcyclist was fined after police spotted her riding with a dog secured to her chest on May 17 in Alexandra Headland.

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8 h. ago Horror in Hamburg as 17 are stabbed in train station knife rampage with hooded 'German woman', 39, arrested after 'randomly attacking passengers'

The attacker, who carried out a stabbing spree at the central railway station in Germany's second-biggest city, has been arrested.

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10 h. ago Woman arrested after knife rampage leaves 12 injured at major train station

At least 12 people have been injured in a knife attack at Hamburg Central Station on Friday evening, with one woman arrested by federal police

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11 h. ago Twelve people are stabbed in knife rampage in Germany before woman, 39, is arrested

A woman has been arrested in Germany after eight people were left injured following a knife attack.

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12 h. ago Stabbing rampage at Hamburg station leaves several people injured

The suspect has been arrested

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12 h. ago Twelve people are stabbed in knife rampage in Germany before woman is arrested

A woman has been arrested in Germany after eight people were left injured following a knife attack.

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12 h. ago Hamburg stabbing UPDATES: 12 slashed in Germany knife rampage as woman arrested

12 people have reportedly been injured, some seriously, during the knife attack at Hamburg Central Station on Friday evening, with one woman arrested by federal police

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12 h. ago George Floyd's girlfriend worries Trump will pardon killer cop Derek Chauvin 5 years on

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: This Sunday marks five years since George Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in a video that shocked the world

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13 h. ago Man who fled mental ward and battered gran to death with umbrella learns fate

Horrified police officers found Beryl Purdy, 86, lying in a pool of blood after being called to reports of a burglary in progress at her house in the Somerset village of Broomfield.

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13 h. ago Owner killed his Chihuahua by ‘stuffing it in the oven and turning it on because the dog barked too much’

‘Horrible and inhumane,’ said a police officer who attended the horrific scene in Alabama

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15 h. ago Female prison officer had fling 2 inmates – robber and crim who has 147mph police chase

A female police officer will face a plea hearing soon before facing trial later this year for allegedly having sexual relations with two inmates during her time working in a prison

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16 h. ago Kneecap's 'secret' London show met with police presence after tickets sold in seconds

Met Police officers could be seen entering the 100 Club on Oxford Street in central London on May 22 where rap trio Kneecap had announced a surprise sold-out gig on Thursday night

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21 h. ago Man armed with crossbow enters Scots hospital in early morning incident

Police, including firearms officers, raced to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

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23 h. ago Alarming number of Lasik eye surgery patients who took their own lives revealed after police officer's suicide

The recent suicide of a young Pennsylvania police officer has reignited concerns over Lasik eye surgery, as dozens of similar stories emerge of complications pushing patients to death.

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24 h. ago Suspect charged with murder for ‘killing two Israeli Embassy staff members’ in Washington DC shooting

Elias Rodriguez of Chicago told officers from the Metropolitan Police Department at the scene: ‘I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza, I am unarmed’

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29 h. ago Labour set to free killers and rapists earlier under new soft

The Government's sentencing review was last night savaged by victims and senior police officers, while the Tories dubbed it a 'recipe for a crimewave'.

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32 h. ago Suspect charged with murder for ‘killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington DC’

Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, told officers from the Metropolitan Police Department at the scene: ‘I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza, I am unarmed’

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32 h. ago Outrage as sheriff's office swoops in to arrest murder suspect at FUNERAL...but they made a terrible mistake

As friends and relatives stood mourning their loved one at a North Carolina funeral, police officers swooped in targeting what they believed was a breakthrough arrest in a 30-year-old cold case.

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34 h. ago Ice arrests at immigration courts across the US stirring panic: ‘It’s terrifying’

Advocates say families with children among those detained in LA, Phoenix, New York, Seattle, Chicago and TexasFederal authorities have arrested people at US immigration courts from New York to Arizona to Washington state in what appears to be a coordinated operation, as the Trump administration ramps up the president’s mass deportation campaign.On Tuesday, agents who identified themselves only as federal officers arrested multiple people at an immigration court in Phoenix, taking people into custody outside the facility, according to immigrant advocates. Continue reading...

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