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Police arrest second suspect, a 15-year-old, in shooting of Commanders RB Brian Robinson Jr.

Police arrest second suspect, a 15-year-old, in shooting of Commanders RB Brian Robinson Jr.

Brian Robinson was shot twice in his leg on Aug. 28 in an alleged attempted robbery in Washington D.C. (AP/Susan Walsh) Police have arrested a second suspect allegedly involved in the shooting of Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. Washington D.C. police arrested a 15-year-old boy on Friday, just days after they charged a 17-year-old with assault with intent to rob while armed, his agent said on Twitter. The suspect was 14 at the time of the shooting, per The Washington… Source link

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76ers’ Furkan Korkmaz said he was attacked by Georgian players, police after heated EuroBasket game

76ers’ Furkan Korkmaz said he was attacked by Georgian players, police after heated EuroBasket game

Furkan Korkmaz was ejected from Turkey’s game against Georgia on Sunday, and said he was later attacked in the tunnel by Georgian players and police. (Nikola Krstic/MB Media/Getty Images) Philadelphia 76ers guard Furkan Korkmaz said he was attacked by both members of the Georgian national team and Georgian national police after he was ejected from Turkey’s game against Georgia at the EuroBasket tournament on Sunday. Korkmaz was thrown out of the game on Sunday in Tbilisi, Georgia, after he… Source link

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Democratic lawmaker accuses Google of failing to police deceptive ads

Democratic lawmaker accuses Google of failing to police deceptive ads

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) speaks to reporters during a break from a Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations joint briefing on the U.S. policy on Afghanistan, on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 2, 2022. Al Drago | Reuters Google has failed to take down scam ads that violate its policies, according to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., chair of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, first reported by The Washington… Source link

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Marshawn Lynch’s car was missing wheel during DUI arrest, police pulled him out when he refused to exit

Marshawn Lynch’s car was missing wheel during DUI arrest, police pulled him out when he refused to exit

Video of Marshawn Lynch’s DUI arrest in Las Vegas on Tuesday was released on Thursday. The police bodycam footage shows Lynch as he sat in the driver’s seat of a Shelby GT500 missing its front driver’s side wheel. Five officers surrounded the car and spoke with Lynch as he remained seated with the driver’s side door open before they eventually pulled him out and arrested him. While he remained in the car, Lynch repeatedly asked officers what the problem was. “I’m not driving,” Lynch said…. Source link

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Google, like Amazon, will let police see your video without a warrant

Google, like Amazon, will let police see your video without a warrant

Arlo, Apple, Wyze, and Anker, owner of Eufy, all confirmed to CNET that they won’t give authorities access to your smart home camera’s footage unless they’re shown a warrant or court order. If you’re wondering why they’re specifying that, it’s because we’ve now learned Google and Amazon are doing just the opposite: they allow police to get this data without a warrant if police claim there’s been an emergency. Earlier this month my colleague Sean Hollister wrote about how… Source link

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Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge.

Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge.

A teen charged with setting a fire that killed five members of a Senegalese immigrant family in Denver, Colorado, has become the first person to challenge police use of Google search histories to find someone who might have committed a crime, according to his lawyers.   The pushback against this surveillance tool, known as a reverse keyword search, is being closely watched by privacy and abortion rights advocates, who are concerned that it could soon be used to investigate women who search… Source link

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Texas police admit to failed shooting response, say kids in room with gunman called 911

Texas police admit to failed shooting response, say kids in room with gunman called 911

Texas’s top public safety official said officers on the scene failed to follow protocol at the Uvalde elementary school shooting, with officers standing in the hallway as children in the classroom called 911 as their classmates were killed. At a Friday afternoon press conference, state Director of Public Safety Steven McCraw said that 19 officers stood in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classroom on Tuesday while students inside the room called 911 for help. McCraw said the on-site… Source link

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Data leak from Russian delivery app shows dining habits of the secret police

A massive data leak from Russian food delivery service Yandex Food revealed the delivery addresses, phone numbers, names, and delivery instructions belonging to those associated with Russia’s secret police, according to findings from Bellingcat. Yandex Food, a subsidiary of the larger Russian internet company, Yandex, first reported the data leak on March 1st, blaming it on the “dishonest actions” of one of its employees and noting that the leak doesn’t include users’ login… Source link

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Police arrest protesters who remained at US-Canada bridge

WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Police moved in to clear and arrest the remaining protesters near the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing on Sunday, ending a demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions that has hurt the economy of both nations even as they held back from a crackdown on a larger protest in the capital, Ottawa. Local and national police formed a joint command center in Ottawa, where protests have paralyzed downtown, infuriated residents who are fed up with police inaction and… Source link

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Google, Snapchat warrants lead police to teen arson suspects

DENVER (KDVR) — With a family of five dead in an unsolved house fire, night-vision images of the masked suspects haunted the metro for months — until Google led police to the accused killers. At age 16, Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour — along with another teen charged as a juvenile — were arrested on counts of first-degree murder and more in the August 2020 killings in Green Valley Ranch. It took months before a break in the case, with the community fearful it was a targeted… Source link

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