Tag: officer
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Andre Hill complied with orders when fatally shot by former officer Adam Coy, prosecutors say
An unarmed Black man who was fatally shot four years ago by a now-fired Columbus, Ohio, police officer complied with commands and was wrongly killed as he walked out of a garage, prosecutors said Thursday. Opening arguments began earlier in the day in the trial against former officer Adam Coy, 48, who killed Andre Hill,…
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Akron school resource officer put on administrative duty after punching student in the head
An Akron, Ohio, school resource officer has been assigned to administrative duty after he was recorded on video punching a high school student in the head, the mayor said. Security video released Monday by Akron Public Schools shows the school’s resource officer, who is a member of the Akron Police Department and was assigned to…
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Ex-Virginia officer who killed shoplifting suspect acquitted of manslaughter, guilty of firearm charge
FAIRFAX, Va. — A jury on Friday acquitted a former police officer in Virginia of involuntary manslaughter after he fatally shot a shoplifting suspect outside a busy shopping mall. But the jury did convict the former police sergeant, Wesley Shifflett, of reckless handling of a firearm in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors argued that Shifflett,…
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Guardian of subway rider inadvertently shot in the head by NYPD officer files $80M claim against city
The temporary guardian of a New York City subway rider who was inadvertently shot in the head by police officers at a Brooklyn station last month has filed an $80 million legal claim against the city, accusing the officers of “carelessness and reckless disregard” for the lives of others when they opened fire on a…
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Former Houston officer found guilty of murder in deaths of couple during drug raid
HOUSTON — A former Houston police officer was convicted Wednesday of murder in the deaths of a couple during a 2019 drug raid that revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit. A jury found Gerald Goines guilty of two counts of murder in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his 58-year-old wife Rhogena…
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Attack on foreign diplomats’ convoy kills police officer in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A roadside bomb hit a convoy of foreign diplomats visiting northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing a police officer in their security detail, police said. Zahidullah Khan, a police officer from the Swat district, told NBC News that the diplomats were on their way to a tourist resort “when a police van escorting their convoy…
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Former CIA officer jailed for 30 years for drugging and sexually assaulting women
A former CIA officer was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for drugging and sexually abusing and filming multiple women without their consent, in one of the most serious misconduct cases in the agency’s history. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, from La Mesa, California, photographed and filmed 28 women while they were unconscious or unable…