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California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

A frame of video showing two Huntington Park Police officers pointing their guns at 36-year-old Anthony Lowe Jr., a double amputee, moments before he was shot and killed by police. (via Twitter/Mike Sington) A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them. The short video showed the 36-year-old Black man, Anthony Lowe Jr., missing the bottom halves of both… Source link

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California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

California police fatally shoot double amputee, raising the question: Was lethal force justified?

A frame of video showing two Huntington Park Police officers pointing their guns at 36-year-old Anthony Lowe Jr., a double amputee, moments before he was shot and killed by police. (via Twitter/Mike Sington) A Los Angeles County police department is facing intense criticism this week after a video surfaced on social media of two officers fatally shooting a double amputee moving away from them. The short video showed the 36-year-old Black man, Anthony Lowe Jr., missing the bottom halves of both… Source link

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Protesters demand justice for Tyre Nichols across U.S. after Memphis police bodycam footage released

Protesters demand justice for Tyre Nichols across U.S. after Memphis police bodycam footage released

People hold signs at a protest in Times Square after footage showing Tyre Nichols’s fatal beating at the hands of Memphis, Tenn., police officers was released on Friday night. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Protests unfolded across the U.S. on Friday night after body camera footage and surveillance video showing Memphis, Tenn., police officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols were released. Nichols’s family, the Memphis police chief and President Biden called on protesters to remain peaceful in… Source link

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Men imprisoned for murder challenge police use of Google data to find them

Men imprisoned for murder challenge police use of Google data to find them

Two men imprisoned for killing a California gas station manager are trying to get their cases overturned by arguing that Los Angeles County investigators broke the law when they had Google scour location data about millions of devices in search of potential suspects. The appeal is part of a growing attempt by defense lawyers and privacy advocates to curtail police use of geofence warrants, an investigative tool powered by the public’s reliance on phones that track their movements. Driving… Source link

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