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CHICAGO (CBS) -- Twice in a span of less than three hours early Thursday, crime victims fought back and shot someone trying to break into or outright steal their car, and that fighting back is starting to become a trend. The first victim was a retired Chicago police officer, whose neighbor alerted him that someone was trying to break into his car early Thursday in the Austin neighborhood. That's when the 73-year-old retired officer came out of his home in the 300 block of North Mayfield Avenue, and confronted the 53-year-old man trying to break into his vehicle around 2:15...

BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn woman is under fire after calling 911 on a young child, claiming he had groped her inside a Brooklyn deli. The incident has sparked a firestorm on social media because the woman is white and the young child is black. It all happened Wednesday at the Sahara Deli Market on Albemarle Road in Flatbush. The woman identified as Teresa Klein was being rung up at the front counter when the child walked by. According to Klein, the boy “grabbed my ass,” prompting her to call 911. Video of the exchange outside the deli when Klein confronted...