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Chavis Carter: America's Next Trayvon Martin?

Cops say he fatally shot himself while handcuffed

(Newser) - If Trayvon Martin's death seems suspect, try Chavis Carter's: According to police, the 21-year-old killed himself while handcuffed in the back of a police car. Officers pulled over Carter last month in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and say he was carrying marijuana and little plastic bags often used to sell...

More Protests Rock Anaheim After Police Shootings

Five arrested, one injured in yesterday's melee

(Newser) - Protesters once again faced off with Anaheim police yesterday after an officer shot and killed an unarmed man Saturday . More than 600 demonstrators thronged outside City Hall while a meeting was being held inside, and things got violent: Patio chairs were thrown through a Starbucks window, the windows of at...

Police Shooting Triggers Violent Face-Off in Anaheim

2 cops on leave as mayor vows investigation

(Newser) - The fatal shooting of an unarmed man by police in Anaheim, Calif., has two police officers on paid leave and a community in an uproar, reports the Los Angeles Times . Two cops approached three men in an alley Saturday. Two of those men drove off, but the third, Manuel Diaz,...

Cop Shoots, Kills Unarmed Woman After Car Fight

She had crashed stolen car, was trying to drive away

(Newser) - A police detective shot and killed an unarmed woman in the streets of Brooklyn yesterday, after she crashed a stolen car and tried to flee the scene. The trouble started when two plainclothes narcotics officers spotted a gray Camry making a "wild" U-turn, running several lights, and then smashing...

NH Police Chief, Suspects Killed in Dramatic Standoff

Drug bust goes wrong, leads to shootout

(Newser) - Michael Maloney was only a week from retirement when he was shot and killed last night in a drug raid gone horribly wrong. The police chief of Greenland, New Hampshire, and a drug task force attempted to execute a search warrant on the home of Cullen Mutrie at around 6pm,...

4 NYPD Officers Shot After Argument Over Elevator

Nakwon Foxworth accused of firing at police

(Newser) - An argument over a blocked service elevator turned violent yesterday, ending in a shootout in a Brooklyn apartment during which four police officers were injured. Suspect Nakwon Foxworth, 33, who was with his pregnant girlfriend Jessica Hickling and their 4-month-old son, became angry at movers who were blocking the entrance...

New Orleans Cops Get Decades in Jail for Shootings

Five sentences in Katrina violence range from six years to 65

(Newser) - Five former New Orleans police officers were sentenced today to prison terms ranging from six to 65 years for their roles in deadly shootings of unarmed residents on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina. Kenneth Bowen, Robert Gisevius, Anthony Villavaso, and Robert Faulcon were convicted of firearms charges. Retired Sgt. Arthur...

Officer Killed in Utah Shootout

5 others injured as police were serving warrant on suspect

(Newser) - One police officer was killed and five more officers were injured—some critically—while serving a search warrant on a Utah home last night, KSL reports. Witnesses reported hearing three quick shots, a pause, then much more gunfire. One said he heard what sounded like an AK-47, and says he...

Oakland Cop Shoots Occupy Videographer

Protester plans to see an attorney

(Newser) - An Occupy Oakland protester discovered what happens when you videotape a scary-looking row of riot police: You get shot. Scott Campbell was recording the cops last week when one suddenly fired a rubber bullet or bean bag that hit the videographer, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. As the video shows,...

Crime Down, But More Cops Dying

And no one seems to know why

(Newser) - Crime rates are falling all across the US—so why are more police officers dying? That’s “the million-dollar question, and we're all studying it and trying to figure it out,” the chief of the LAPD tells the Wall Street Journal . This year has seen 130 cops...

Riots, Looting Rattle London a Second Night

Latest violence planned via Facebook, Twitter

(Newser) - Bricks were hurled at police, cars torched, and shops looted as rioting spread to new communities in a second night of street violence in London. Clashes erupted in Enfield, Walthamstow, and Waltham Forest in north London, and Brixton in the south of the city following a riot over the weekend...

London Rioters Burn, Loot Through Night

Protest over police shooting turned violent

(Newser) - Riots rocked London last night and into this morning leaving eight police officers injured as crowds threw rocks, burned buildings and cars, and looted area shops over a police shooting Thursday, reports the BBC . The violence followed peaceful protests around 5pm, when 300 people gathered at a Tottenham police station...

Cops Shoot Cop During Potter Cinema Porn Bust

Friendly fire injures 2 during bungled kiddie porn arrest

(Newser) - A bungled bust outside a movie theater in Connecticut left the suspect and two police officers needing hospital treatment. A pair of officers confronted a suspect wanted on child pornography charges after he left a late-night screening of the new Harry Potter movie. The suspect resisted arrest and reached for...

Cop Who Shot College Kid Wins 'Officer of the Year'

Family of Pace University football player Danroy Henry furious

(Newser) - The family of slain Pace University football player Danroy “DJ” Henry called out a New York police union today, after discovering that it had named the cop who shot and killed Henry their “Officer of the Year.” Aaron Hess’ award was especially galling, the family told the...

New Orleans Paper: Rogue Photographer Betrayed Us

Alex Brandon never told them about cop killings he saw

(Newser) - Journalists at the New Orleans Times-Picayune are still reeling from the revelation that one of their own, photographer Alex Brandon, never told them about the police misconduct he witnessed following Hurricane Katrina, the LA Times reports. Brandon embedded with police following the hurricane, and witnessed the shooting of Henry Glover...

Two Cops Get Long Sentences in Katrina Killing

David Warren gets 25 years, Gregory McRae 17 in death of Henry Glover

(Newser) - Calling the crimes inexcusable and barbaric, a judge sentenced two former New Orleans police officers to prison today for their roles in the shooting death of an unarmed man whose body was later set on fire in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The judge gave David Warren 25 years...

Brazil Cops Filmed Shooting Unarmed Teen

5 officers face attempted murder charges

(Newser) - Five Brazilian police officers filmed shooting an unarmed 14-year-old boy in the Amazon city of Manaus have been arrested. The boy was hit five times but survived, and spent several days in intensive care with a punctured lung, reports AP . The shooting happened last summer but only came to light...

3rd St. Pete Officer Shot to Death in Month

Florida city lost another as he was confronting suspect

(Newser) - Less than a month after two Florida police officers were killed in a St. Petersburg shootout , another officer was shot to death in the city, CNN reports. Police today formed a tight perimeter around the area where Officer David Crawford was shot only moments after leaving his police cruiser to...

Gunman Shoots 4 Cops at Detroit Precinct

Police return fire, killing 38-year-old shooter

(Newser) - A police commander and three officers were shot yesterday afternoon in their Detroit precinct station house by a 38-year-old gunman, who was then shot and killed by police, reports the Detroit News . The commander was shot in the hand and side, and underwent surgery that evening; he is in critical...

Two Dead, Including Police Officer, in Baltimore Shooting

Officers may have fired on officer whose badge came off in fight

(Newser) - A fight at a Baltimore nightclub spilled onto the street early today and led to an eruption of gunfire that killed a police officer and another man and left four people hurt, police said. One of those wounded also was a police officer, who was shot in the leg, said...

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