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Cop Kills Double Amputee in Wheelchair

Officer Matthew Jacob Marin was cornered in group home

(Newser) - A police officer took action yesterday against a double amputee who was waving a pen around—by shooting him dead in his wheelchair, the AP reports. Houston officer Matthew Jacob Marin was responding to a call about the amputee causing a disturbance at a group home, when the man cornered...

Witnesses: NYPD Killed Unarmed Bodega Worker

Officer mistook him for robber, they say

(Newser) - An NYPD officer allegedly shot and killed an unarmed bodega worker in the Bronx this morning, mistaking him for a robber. Police will confirm only that a 20-year-old Hispanic man was killed, but witnesses tell the New York Daily News and NBC 4 that they called police when they saw...

NYPD Releases Video of Fatal Police Shootout

Video shows Johnson draw gun, aim at police

(Newser) - The New York Police Department released raw video last night showing yesterday's fatal confrontation with Jeffrey Johnson, reports DNA Info . (Warning: It's rough to watch.) The silent video shows police approaching Johnson, who responds by pulling a gun and pointing it at them. Police shoot him dead...

South Africa Reels as Mine Shooting Toll Hits 35

President Zuma 'shocked and dismayed' by violence

(Newser) - The death toll has risen to more than 35 in yesterday's shooting of striking South African miners by police, which has become one of the deadliest confrontations since the end of apartheid, reports the Telegraph . The country's police minister says many others were injured and the toll is...

Police Shoot Knife-Wielding Man Near Times Square

Cell phone cameras capture daytime mayhem

(Newser) - A man brandishing a six-inch knife near Times Square was gunned down in a hail of bullets yesterday, reports the New York Daily News . The unidentified 51-year-old man was approached by police because he appeared to be smoking pot in public, reports the New York Times , and responded by putting...

Video Released of Fatal Shooting of Arkansas Officer

Backseat passenger shot officer during traffic stop

(Newser) - Prosecutors have released a graphic video of the fatal shooting of an Arkansas police officer during a traffic stop last year. Police say they want to learn from the 20-minute video, which shows Jerry Lard shooting police officer Jonathan Schmidt. Lard, who was a passenger in the back seat of...

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...

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