17 h. ago Riot squad at scene after ‘two people stabbed’ in Munich as woman, 30, shot dead

A woman was shot and killed by police in Munich after she reportedly went on the rampage and attacked two people with a knife. The woman was shot and killed by police

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18 h. ago Woman, 30, shot dead by police after ‘attacking two people with knife’ in Munich

Munich police riot squad and the Criminal Investigation Department rushed to the scene after the woman attacked two people with a knife near the Oktoberfest grounds

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18 h. ago Munich shooting: Woman, 30, shot dead by police after 'attacking two people with knife'

Munich police riot squad and the Criminal Investigation Department rushed to the scene after the woman attacked two people with a knife near the Oktoberfest grounds

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19 h. ago Police officer accidentally shot and killed by her colleague in Chicago

Krystal Rivera, 36, survived by a 10-year-old daughter

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20 h. ago Chicago cop shot and killed by fellow officer in friendly fire incident during tactical operation

While being transported to hospital, the car carrying officer Krystal Rivera crashed and caught fire

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21 h. ago Chicago police say an officer was accidentally shot and killed by her partner

Chicago police officials say an officer killed this week was accidentally shot and killed by her partner after they encountered someone with a rifle when they chased a suspect into an apartment

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60 h. ago Spanish police’s plea for respect backfires over photo of old women alfresco

Andalucían police used shot of women sitting on chairs on pavement in request to keep public right of way clearSomewhere towards the very top of the long list of unspoken Spanish rules – gin and tonic should not be drunk before a meal, chorizo has no place in the vicinity of a paella and children’s bedtimes cease to apply in the summer – is the silent injunction that forbids any attempts to alter the habits of the country’s cherished older people.It was unfortunate, then, that police in the small Andalucían town of Santa Fe chose the photo they did to accompany a request for people not to disturb their neighbours by sitting around the streets late at night. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Judge dismisses murder charges against Atlanta officer in 2019 shooting of unarmed man in closet

A federal judge has thrown out murder charges against a former Atlanta police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man hiding in a closet

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4 d. ago McDonald’s employee fatally shot in parking lot after argument with manager escalates, cops say

The employee was shot multiple times by his manager’s brother, according to police.

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4 d. ago Readers' Letters: SNP would leave Scots defenceless in face of aggressive Russia

Government policies have shot down chance of a lucrative welding plant being sighted in Scotland, says reader

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6 d. ago Police officer fatally shoots person at Atlanta apartment complex

Authorities say a police officer shot and killed a person at a southwest Atlanta apartment complex who was breaking into his police car

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8 d. ago Croydon stabbing: Police swoop after horror broad daylight attack near Subway

Croydon stabbing: Police swoop after horror broad daylight attack near Subway  Daily Express

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8 d. ago Chilling words of killer who thought his dead wife was 'winking' at him

Joseph Parker called police to report he had shot his wife in the head while she was sleeping and then dismembered her body to fit in the freezer at their home

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8 d. ago Landlord shot and killed while trying to evict tenant, police say

Police said the tenant got “upset” when he was served an eviction notice

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1 week ago Former Georgia officer who fatally shot naked man pleads guilty to aggravated assault

A former Georgia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed, naked man pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated assault and won’t serve any additional time behind bars

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1 week ago Man armed with garden shears shot dead by police after being bitten by alligator

A 42-year-old Florida man charged at police officer with gardening shears in his hands on a drug-fuelled rampage in the moments before he was shot dead by two sheriff's deputies

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1 week ago Handsworth shooting LIVE: Two men fired upon near Birmingham school

West Midlands Police raced to a street in Birmingham after two men were shot at close to Heathfield Primary School - locals have been warned of travel disruption due to road closures

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2 w. ago They were shot by police at the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. ‘I came home a different person’

Blinded, beaten or jailed, some protesters are still recovering physically and financially from speaking outFive years ago, on 25 May 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. During an attempted arrest, Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, cutting off his oxygen supply. The gruesome killing was captured on video.Floyd’s murder sparked global outcry, launching the largest protests seen in the US since the civil rights movement. During the summer of 2020, upwards of 26 million people protested nationwide to condemn police brutality and demand racial justice. Rallies also spread across the globe, with some 93 countries and territories participating in the uprisings. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago A Black father killed a cop after seeing his son shot dead in a police chase. People have donated tens of thousands of dollars to his cause

Rodney Hinton Jr’s case has been compared to the killing of a healthcare CEO by Luigi Mangione, but his family has rejected claims he was acting out of revenge, Richard Hall writes.

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2 w. ago Police sergeant who murdered his wife accidentally shot their 10

Amanda Fernandes Carvalho was killed by her husband, Samir do Nascimento Rodrigues de Carvalho, on May 7.

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