9 h. ago Police officer fighting for his life after collision while on duty is named

Pc Christopher Miller was on duty when a white BMW crashed into him in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire.

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10 h. ago Thames Valley Police name Christopher Miller as officer fighting for his life in hospital following collision

The incident took place on Thursday, May 22

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10 h. ago Pictured: Police officer, 38, who is fighting for his life after being hit by car as four are arrested in connection to 'attempted murder'

The 38-year-old sustained 'life-threatening injuries' on Thursday at around 10.20pm on the B416 Bells Hill, between Decies Way and Rogers Lane in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire.

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10 h. ago Police officer fighting for his life after being hit by car on duty named and pictured

The force revealed PC Miller was still in hospital as they appealed for witnesses to come forward

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10 h. ago Police officer fighting for his life after crash while on duty is named

Pc Christopher Miller was on duty when a white BMW crashed into him in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire.

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11 h. ago Stoke Poges policeman left fighting for life after being hit by car pictured for first time

A police officer in a critical condition in hospital after being hit by a car while on duty in Buckinghamshire has been named by Thames Valley Police

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11 h. ago US police officer resigns after wrongfully arresting undocumented teen

Leslie O’Neal of Georgia pulled over college student who then spent more than two weeks in federal immigration jailA Georgia police officer has resigned from his job after erroneously pulling over a teenager, causing her to spend more than two weeks in a federal immigration jail, and leaving her facing deportation.The officer, Leslie O’Neal, was employed at the police department in Dalton, a small city more than an hour north of Atlanta. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Teenager in critical condition after a mother and three of her children die in London fire

Man, 41, arrested at scene of fire in north-west London on Saturday remains in custody, Metropolitan police sayA teenage girl injured in a fire that killed a mother and three of her children in north-west London on Saturday is in a critical condition in hospital, police have said, as officers continue to question a man suspected of their murders.A 43-year-old woman, a 15-year-old girl and two boys aged eight and four died at the scene of the fire which gutted two homes in the Stonebridge area of Brent in the early hours of Saturday. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Drunk van driver drove erratically through residential streets then punched the police officer who tried to stop him

Sean Hennessey, 41, was violent and during the struggle he punched the officer repeatedly to the head and face.

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16 h. ago The woman who went on a first date with a personal trainer... then he put seven police officers in hospital

Mum of two Courtney Redfern, 27, was on her first date with Mayzar Azarbonyad, 20, when police tried to stop his powerful BMW M5 as he drove her home.

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16 h. ago George Floyd’s family fights for sacred ground where he took his last breath: ‘That’s my blood’

Minneapolis site where Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin in 2020 faces tense debate over how best to honor his legacyLast May, Roger Floyd and Thomas McLaurin walked the lengths of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, passing a roundabout with a garden, and a vacant gas station with a large sign that read: “Where there’s people there’s power.” Though it had been four years since the murder of George Floyd, their nephew and cousin, respectively, concrete barriers erected by the city to protect the area still cordoned off the corner of the street where he was killed by the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on 25 May 2020.Behind those barriers stands a memorial with a black-and-white mural of George Floyd on the side of a bus stop shelter. “That’s my blood that was laying there taking his last breath. What was he going through?” McLaurin recalled thinking as he stood in front of the mural. Flowers and stuffed animals from visitors surrounded the memorial. Roger said he...

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16 h. 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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17 h. ago Two police officers rushed to hospital after disturbance at Glasgow tower block

Three men, aged 24, 25 and 31, were arrested following the incident.

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19 h. ago Police officer sacked and jailed after blowing vape smoke at a member of the public before throttling him

PC Tyler McWalter, 30, choked Charlie Pottow while on a night out during an unprovoked attack in Dorset.

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20 h. ago How did 2020’s Black Lives Matter movement change the world? Our panel responds

Five years ago, George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis. Writers and activists from Brazil to Berlin talk about the protests, hope and disappointment that followedDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Cities tied to George Floyd mark the 5th anniversary of his death

Religious services, concerts and vigils are scheduled to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer in the cities where Floyd grew up and where he died

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32 h. ago Mystery as two bodies found in apartment next to holiday waterpark after 'violent incident'

The victims are believed to be a foreign couple, though their identities and nationalities have not been released. National Police officers sealed off the area for forensics and detectives

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35 h. ago Police officer fighting for life with two men arrested on suspicion of attempted murder

Police said the incident was ‘another stark reminder of the dangers that our police and emergency service colleagues face on a daily basis’

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35 h. ago How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me

Kate Wilson won a legal battle against the Metropolitan Police after discovering her long-term boyfriend was an undercover officer

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38 h. ago How a tourist was chained up, electrocuted, and menaced with a CHAINSAW inside man's apartment

John Woeltz, 37, was arrested in New York on Friday after the unnamed tourist escaped the house of horrors and informed a police officer that he had been kidnapped and tortured for weeks.

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