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Chicago police may have violated policy in fatal shooting of Paul O'Neal: official

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said on Saturday that videos of the police shooting of a black man in the city last month indicate three officers may have violated the department's policies.

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Maryland police kill armed black woman who threatened them

Maryland police fatally shot an armed black woman who espoused anti-government views and threatened to kill officers during a standoff where her 5-year-old son was wounded, authorities said on Tuesday.

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New Connecticut school on Sandy Hook massacre site blends safety and nature

When the children of Newtown, Connecticut, report to the new Sandy Hook Elementary School next month, they will enter a building carefully designed to protect them from the unthinkable.

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Fox News panel goes off the rails when Lou Dobbs tries to argue whites are a minority in the US

Fox Business correspondent Lou Dobbs, who is tasked by the network to explain the science of economics to Fox viewers, denied that white people are the majority culture in the United States. Dobbs, who charges thousands of dollars for his  expertise on American culture and politics, was engaged Wednesday in a discussion on Lou Dobbs Tonight with correspondent Juan Williams and radio host Mark Simone during network coverage of the Democratic National Convention.

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Fox reporter mocks Michael Brown's mother on Facebook -- and gets shamed by black St. Louis cops

An organization representing over 200 St. Louis minority law enforcement officials is calling for the dismissal of a local Fox reporter after he mocked the mother of Michael Brown, killed by a police officer in 2014.

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Florida man shoots his two children, self after argument

A Florida man shot and killed his 1-year-old daughter and critically wounded his 7-year-old son before fatally shooting himself on Wednesday after an argument with the children's mother, law enforcement officials said.

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CNN’s cop apologist promotes racist video calling for a ban on violent ‘n****s’

A CNN law enforcement analyst promoted a video on social media that declared African-Americans are responsible for most of the violent crime in the U.S.

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Texas deputy, set to retire in September, shot dead at home near Austin

A sheriff's deputy in Travis County, Texas was shot and killed on Monday after reporting to the department's dispatcher that a suspected robbery was in progress at his home in suburban Austin, officials said.

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'Why did you shoot me?': When police steal a black child's life

“Tell me of the night your son was killed by the police,” I asked. She sat up and a deep sorrow moved in her eyes. “I had a habit of looking out the window to see my son,” Danette Chavis said. “But that night, I said to myself, ‘Oh, leave the boy alone,’ and took a nap. The phone woke me up and my daughter was rushing out of the door. I followed her and saw police tape, cops standing around a body. I yelled to see if it was him. But they wouldn’t let me close. Later, I went to the morgue and identified my son.”

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'Looking for a reason to kill a black man': Black cop rails against white police in shocking post

A police officer in Cincinnati is under fire after he wrote a shocking post on Facebook warning his friends about the dangers of white police.

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Fox immediately makes Munich shooting about U.S. gun laws: 'We're not going to have a country'

As news was breaking that as many as 15 people had died during a shooting in Munich, Germany on Friday, Fox News suggested that the incident was evidence that gun safety laws were ineffective and put citizens' lives in danger.

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Chicago police officer shot and suspect killed in exchange of gunfire

A Chicago police officer was wounded and a suspect was fatally shot on Thursday when police responded to a man acting erratically on the city's south side, police said.

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Vigilante-wannabe Atlanta clerk arrested after holding innocent 11-year-old black boy at gunpoint

An Atlanta store clerk has been taken into custody after he accused an innocent 11-year-old black boy of stealing -- then locked him in his store and held him at gunpoint, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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