Wash. city hit with claim in fatal police shooting

A woman has filed a claim for $5 million to $15 million over a police shooting in which her father was Tasered, then fatally wounded by officers responding to a report of a drunken driver.

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SWAT tactics examined after Oakland cop killings

Law enforcement experts call residential entryways the "fatal funnel" _and that is where two Oakland police officers met death when they confronted a barricaded gunman, who allegedly had already killed two other officers hours earlier.

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Attorney claims cover-up in killing by Pa. trooper

The mother of a Pittsburgh man fatally shot by a state trooper with a history of confrontations called him an out-of-control killer as she held a news conference Tuesday detailing a federal lawsuit filed against him.

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Bullet in Pa. shooting said to match trooper's gun

A man shot dead by police over the weekend had four bullet wounds, and the fatal bullet was consistent with the gun used by a state trooper who killed an unarmed boy several years ago, autopsy results show.

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Atty: NY cops used excessive force in men's deaths

Two New York City police detectives used excessive force when they unleashed a deadly barrage of 28 bullets on a pair of young robbery suspects, firing on the men as they lay on the ground and pleaded for their lives, a lawyer said Friday.

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Greece: Attack on police raises terrorism fears

Greek anti-terror police are investigating an attack Monday against riot police in Athens that severely wounded a policeman and raised fears of a resurgence of domestic terrorism.

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Sharpton convicted in NYC police-shooting protests

A New York judge has convicted the Rev. Al Sharpton of disorderly conduct during protests over a police shooting and sentenced him to time served.

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NY governor vows to examine undercover police procedures

Gov. David Paterson pledged to examine undercover police conduct on Thursday, a day after more than 200 people were arrested protesting the acquittal of three detectives involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man.

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Outcome of NYPD case leads to call for special prosecutor

A coalition of civil rights advocates on Sunday urged changes in the handling of police misconduct and brutality complaints after the acquittal of three officers involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man on his wedding day.

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Mich. authorities search for shooter of deputy, police chief

Authorities are searching for someone who shot a Michigan sheriff's deputy and police chief.

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Sharpton Speaks at Funeral of NYC Teen

The death of an unarmed teenager in a hail of 20 police bullets should serve as a new cause for his generation, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Tuesday at the teen's funeral.

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Grand Jury Indicts 3 in NYPD Shooting

Since the November morning when police fired a 50-bullet barrage that killed an unarmed man on his wedding day, his family members and their supporters have called for the officers involved to be punished.

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Video Shows Near-Miss in NYPD Barrage

A man walking through a train station barely dodged one of the 50 bullets police fired last month in a fusillade that killed an unarmed man hours before his wedding, newly released surveillance video shows.

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Race a Complicated Issue in NYC Shooting

The similarities are striking: A young black man dies in a hail of police bullets, and when the chaos clears it turns out he was unarmed.

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Cops Shoot 3, Kill Groom on Wedding Day

Sean Bell and his fiancee had already shared a high school romance, then two children. In the early hours of what was to be their wedding day, the reception hall lay waiting, covered in satin and adorned with balloons. But the ceremony never occurred Saturday. Police shot 50 rounds at the groom's car as he drove away from his bachelor party, killing the 23-year-old hours before he was to walk down the aisle.

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Teen Wanted in Mass. Gay Bar Attack Caught

Two days after a violent rampage at a gay bar in Massachusetts, authorities said the teen suspect fled 1,500 miles to Arkansas where he fatally shot a police officer and a 33-year-old woman.

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Video Shows Officer Shooting Airman

A videotape released Tuesday shows a sheriff's deputy shooting an unarmed Air Force policeman who recently returned from Iraq as he appeared to obey an order to get up off the ground.

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BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) - The man shot by Bossier City Police on Friday had a history of mental illness and run-ins with police. Now, his widow has hired an attorney to conduct an independent investigation into his death and the officer's actions.

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MIAMI BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- On the grainy, silent black and white video, it's hard to tell exactly what happened the night of June 14 in Miami Beach. But one thing is certain: A tourist, Husien Shehada, can be seen falling to the ground, shot by a police officer.

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It is easy to see how someone can be led to believe that the church is a sanctuary. Many of us have fresh memories of watching Elvira Arellano flaunt her illegal status as she took refuge in a storefront church and dared law enforcement to enter the church to arrest her.

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The sixth person to die from police gunfire in Jacksonville this year is a 21-year-old who authorities say was armed and running from the scene of a robbery.

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I remember Chattanooga being a very racist town in the late fifties, and on up into the seventies. It still is, but more secretive.

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Just keeping up with all the police shootings in my area and sharing them with others. If this man requested that the police shoot him, why did they? Isn't it apparent that he was mentally deranged and in need of help? Oh! we are obliged to shoot you. Just put in your request.

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Just outside the city limits of Chattanooga, where a man was shot and killed by police about a week ago. The East Ridge police are getting in on the fun.

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excerpt: "" Nearly four years after the police shootout that took the lives of Ronald Madison and James Brissette on New Orleans' Danziger Bridge, the FBI raided the offices of the police investigators who had been looking into the deadly incident.

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President Obama better watch his back if he's walking around Harlem without identification, Rep. Charles Rangel said. Rangel issued the warning after the Daily News asked what President Obama should do during his visit to New York.

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For now, we must leave it to departmental investigators and the courts to sort out what happened.

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Desmond Robinson wonders if the city has learned anything. On Aug. 22, 1994, Robinson, a black undercover Transit cop, was chasing an armed teen in a Manhattan subway station.

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An off-duty rookie cop chasing a suspected car thief in East Harlem with his gun drawn was shot and killed Thursday night when an officer mistook him for a criminal. "Police! Stop! Drop it!" cops from the 25th Precinct shouted at Omar Edwards, 25.

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A car chase rattled an east Tampa neighborhood Sunday evening, ending with a crash, bullets and a wounded suspect.

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excerpt: ""Han was killed after his family called police to help deal with Han the morning of April 12. Police said the family told them Han was acting strangely and had locked himself in his bedroom.

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PALMDALE, Calif. – A boy playing "cops and robbers" with a toy handgun has been shot and wounded by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, officials say...

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Here's what happened, according to BSO and Fort Lauderdale police, who are investigating the shooting:

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The Examiner, Washington D.C.

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excerpts: "Richard Andrew Poplawski was a young man convinced the nation was secretly controlled by a cabal that would eradicate freedom of speech, take away his guns and use the military to enslave the citizenry. We recently discovered that 30 states had declared sovereignty,"  …

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excerpt: "Some of the early reports out of Pittsburgh indicate the man who shot three cops today was fearful that the Obama administration was going to "take away his guns."

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CBS 5 has learned that four officers are dead, along with a suspect after a traffic stop led to a massive manhunt in the streets of East Oakland.

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Four police officers are in critical condition after two shootings in an Oakland, California, neighborhood, Saturday afternoon, Oakland police confirmed.

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Family and friends watched as an elderly man was shot by police at a cookout. They say he was killed without justification. State and federal officials are on the case.

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A New Year's Day shooting in which a subway police officer fired a deadly shot into the back of an unarmed man has the San Francisco Bay Area demanding answers as authorities appeal for patience. Oscar Grant, 22, was killed January 1 in a shooting at a subway station in Californ …

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A mistaken police dispatch about a stolen car led to an early morning shooting on Wednesday of a Bellaire man in his own driveway and a demand by his lawyers that the officer who shot him be brought up on criminal charges.

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A newlywed killed by police after he stepped outside his home to confront suspected burglars was shot in a case of mistaken identity, police said.

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