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[Link] Zachary Rolfe trial: no ‘reasonable’ grounds for shooting Kumanjayi Walker second and third time, court hears

Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

Police officer Zachary Rolfe did not have “reasonable” grounds to shoot Kumanjayi Walker a second and third time, and the second and third shots provided no tactical advantage in the attempted arrest of the Aboriginal man, a former Northern Territory police defensive tactics trainer told Rolfe

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[Link] Amir Locke shooting: hundreds protest in Minneapolis after police killing of Black man

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis on Saturday demanding justice in the fatal police shooting of a young Black man, Amir Locke, during a “no-knock” raid on an apartment earlier this week.

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[Link] 3 Cops Charged in Shooting Death of 8-Year-Old Girl After Gunfight

Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com

Three Pennsylvania officers have turned themselves in to authorities after a grand jury decided to bring charges against them in the death of an 8-year-old killed during a firefight they had with two teens.

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[Link] Cop Caught on Video Shooting Man in Wheelchair 9 Times From Behind

Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com

The officer, Ryan Remington, has since been fired from the Tuscon Police Department as a result of the deadly shooting, police said Wednesday. Remington, a four-year veteran of the force, also faces possible charges in the fatal incident. Police say that sometime before 6 p.

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[Link] Off-Duty Cop Allegedly Hit a Guy With His Car and Took the Body Home to Mom

Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com

Ultimately, the cop’s father—who’s also a police officer—called 911, according to local officials.

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[Link] ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone

Read: 22/11/2021 www.techdirt.com

The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive.

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[Link] Police Say TV Star Killed Himself Driving. His Family Say Cops Are to Blame.

Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY—Since former child star, Octavio Ocaña, died from a bullet wound following a car chase with police, many Mexicans have been consumed with the question of who fired the fatal shot. Police said the 22-year-old TV actor accidentally shot himself in the head with his own gun last week.

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[Link] Why are so many NYPD officers fighting vaccination?

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

In New York City, the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) tried and failed to block the city’s vaccine mandate for all city workers. New York City police officers have been on the wrong side of public health for most of the pandemic.

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[Link] Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children

Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.

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[Link] It Took 7 Years To Charge Cops Who Shot Jamarion Robinson 59 Times

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Members of a U.S. Marshal’s task force shot Jamarion Robinson, a 26-year-old Black man with paranoid schizophrenia, 59 times during a raid on his girlfriend’s home in 2016. 

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[Link] Optimum distance to use a taser 3-4 metres, police shooting murder trial told

Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

The murder trial of a police officer who shot and killed a woman armed with a knife has been told the best distance to deploy a taser is from 3 to 4 metres — around the same distance some witnesses put him at when he fired his gun.

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[Link] Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain Death Charged With Homicide

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The police officers and paramedics who stopped 23-year-old Elijah McClain and administered a fatal dose of ketamine to the unarmed Black man are being charged with homicide, more than two years after his death.

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[Link] Long Beach School Cop Shot and Killed a Teen Mom

Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A Long Beach, California, school resource officer  fatally shoting an 18-year-old mother in the head as she fled a fight in her car. Now, two days after died, police are investigating the shooting as a homicide.

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[Link] Fifty police officers contacted woman arrested at Sarah Everard vigil on Tinder

Read: 6/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

A campaigner whose photograph during her arrest became the defining image of the vigil for Sarah Everard has said she felt afraid after about 50 police officers and security guards then “liked” her profile on the Tinder dating app.

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[Link] Why Won’t the Cops Fight Each Other in 'Grand Theft Auto 5'?

Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com

Last year, the video of Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd sparked another wave of of protest against police violence and its role in upholding systemic racism.

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[Link] Explosive Video Shows Police Wrapping Bag Around Suspect’s Head in Thailand. He Later Died.

Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com

Thailand has detained several police officers after a viral video showing the alleged torture and death of a man in custody, a gruesome scene that has shocked the country after it leaked online. Uproar spread across social media after the nearly 10-minute clip was first posted earlier this week.

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