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Memphis officers were worried about getting pepper spray off their own eyes first and even enjoyed a smoke while Tyre Nichols lay dying on the ground. Shocking footage of Nichols' encounter with police over a traffic stop shows the moment cops pepper sprayed the 29-year-old, with one officer appearing to accidentally pepper spray himself and another. The officers cry out in pain and one beats Nichols with a baton afterwards. A cop was later seen asking another officer to flush his eyes with water, while the assisting officer complained about losing his glasses in the initial traffic stop. After the...

Despite liberals’ rhetoric, the one truth about the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is that the only person killed in the riot was a supporter of former President Donald Trump, Ashli Babbitt. And now, thanks to the conservative group Judicial Watch, we’ve learned that the person who fatally shot Babbitt, Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, was allowed to hole up for months in a VIP suite at a Washington-area military base at taxpayer expense following Babbitt’s death.

Police in Moscow, Idaho, tried to calm growing community concerns Wednesday about the killings of four University of Idaho students – even as police said they did not have a suspect in custody and declined to provide the public further information. “We hear you, and we understand your fears,” the Moscow Police Department said in a news release. “We want you to know that we, like you, have been devastated and distressed by these young lives that were cut short needlessly. “We determined early in the investigation that we do not believe there is an ongoing threat for community members....

At 5:07 pm, officers in the 1600 block of Victor located a deceased party. The identity of this person and the cause of death is unconfirmed at this time. The investigation is ongoing.

A Los Angeles jury found Eric Holder guilty Wednesday of the first-degree murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle. The jurors — composed of nine women and three men — deliberated about five and a half hours before coming back with a unanimous verdict on Wednesday morning. Holder stood quietly as the foreperson read the verdict in front of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge H. Clay Jacke. He faces a maximum sentence of life without the possibility of parole. The jury also found Holder guilty of voluntary manslaughter for shooting two men — Kerry Lathan and Shermi Cervinta Villanueva — as they...

The body of a Florida woman, who disappeared more than a week ago, had been found inside her septic tank - and her handyman has been arrested for murder. Police began searching the tank for Cynthia Cole, 57, a few hours after arresting her handyman Keoki Hilo Demich on Friday night. After several hours of excavation, her body was discovered submerged in the cesspool, buried in her backyard in the 4500 block of NE Skyline Drive in Jensen Beach.

KYIV. March 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) shot and killed Denys Kyreyev, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team at the first round of negotiations with Russia in Belarus, while attempting to detain him, Ukrainian parliamentarian Oleksiy Honcharenko said. "During an attempt to detain Denys Kyreyev, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating delegation, the Ukrainian Security Service shot and killed him. He was suspected of high treason," Honcharenko wrote on Telegram. Kyreyev was among the members of the Ukrainian delegation at the first round of the talks with Russia in Belarus. "The SBU had clear evidence of...

...As the clock struck midnight on the east coast Friday morning, Dylan released a new song, “Murder Most Foul,” that has a 16:57 running time — and it’s an epic free association on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy...In the song’s view, the killing of JFK, “right there in front of everyone’s eyes,” is the “greatest magic trick” — and one he presumably thinks has some relevance in 2020.

Authorities have confirmed the murder of a Nuevo Laredo newspaper editor whose body decapitated and left with a message not to use social media to report about drug cartels. It all happened in the Colonia Madero of Nuevo Laredo around 7:45 a.m. Saturday. According to reports, a woman's body was next to a statue of Christopher Columbus with a message not to use social media to report about drug cartel violence. The Tamaulipas Attorney General's Office (PGJE) identified the woman's body as 39-year-old Maria Elizabeth Macias-Castro, the editor of Nuevo Laredo's Primera Hora newspaper. Macias-Castro is the third person in...

The Yale lab technician busted yesterday in the murder of brilliant grad student Annie Le may have had help hiding her body -- and there could be another arrest, it was reported last night. Cops are interrogating another employee who works in the lab where Raymond Clark allegedly killed Le, sources told Hartford TV station WTIC/Fox61. It was not known who that employee might be. Clark's fiancée, sister and brother-in-law all work at the lab. The bombshell report came after Clark, 24, was arrested yesterday, hours after a State Police lab confirmed that DNA samples taken from him matched evidence...

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday. St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall.

AP Hints Pro-Lifers Bigger Terrorists Than Foreign Radicals By Dave Pierre | February 20, 2008 - 00:22 ET Let me get this straight: On September 11, 2001, terrorists brutally exterminated nearly 3,000 Americans, obliterated the landscape of lower Manhattan, and pummeled the headquarters of the United States's national defense. And since that same date nearly six-and-a-half years ago, pro-lifers have committed a grand total of zero murders, attempted murders, and bombings directed at abortion workers and clinics across the United States and Canada. So the Associated Press implies that the bigger threat of terrorism to this country comes from ......

Police and authorities 'afraid to act against honour crimes in case they are called racist', claims reportBy CHARLOTTE GILL - More by this author » Last updated at 01:01am on 4th February 2008 Lured to India and killed: Surjit Kaur Athwal Teachers, police and councils are afraid to take action against so-called honour crimes for fear of being accused of racism, it is claimed. Women are also being betrayed by community figures who believe those who break traditional taboos deserve to be punished, the report found.  Researchers say taxi drivers, police and government workers of Asian origin are returning women...

Survival of early babies 'doubles' By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor  Last Updated: 2:46am GMT 01/02/2008     The abortion debate is reignited today as figures show that survival rates of babies born very prematurely have doubled in the past 20 years. Have your say: Does this change your view on abortion debate? All evidence tells us to reduce abortion limit Q&A: Why limit abortion?    Premature babies are capable of surviving below the current 24-week time limit   A study at one of Britain's top neonatal units found that one third of babies born between 22 and 25 weeks' gestation...

Debt-ridden woman's 'death by anti-freeze plot' goes wrong after husband survivesLast updated at 16:44pm on 7th January 2008 A woman tried to kill her husband by poisoning him with anti-freeze after sinking into financial crisis, a court heard today. Kate Knight, 28, set out to murder her husband Lee to clear mounting debts, a jury was told. She considered a "number of methods", prosecutor Mr William Davis told the court, before settling on anti-freeze, which contains the potentially fatal chemical ethylene glycol. Mr Knight, a former JCB employee, became "gravely ill" after ingesting the poison. Mr Davis explained: "He...

Plans to relax law on early abortion       Greg Hurst, Political Correspondent   The most extensive liberalisation of abortion laws for 40 years is being planned by MPs, The Times has learnt. MPs will propose that women be allowed to seek an abortion on the basis of informed consent – dropping the requirement for two doctors’ signatures – and perform the second stage of a medical termination at home rather than at a hospital or clinic. They also want nurses rather than doctors to be allowed to carry out abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy, up...

Parents allowed to screen IVF embryo for Alzheimer'sBy GWYNETH REES - More by this author » Last updated at 18:11pm on 20th September 2007  A couple have been given the go ahead to have their embryos screened for a rare form of Alzheimer's   A couple who fear their child could inherit a rare form of Alzheimer's are to undergo embryo screening to eliminate the risk. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has approved the tests, which will allow embryos of the parents, who have a history of the disease in their family, to be screened for the genetic...

Headmaster's killer to get new identity By Tom Harper, Sunday Telegraph  Last Updated: 1:42am BST 26/08/2007  The government is preparing to give the killer of headmaster Philip Lawrence a new identity.   Learco Chindamo: Secret identity will cost millions   Under the plans, Learco Chindamo, 26, and his close family will be given new names and moved to an address away from London, where he grew up and where his mother, stepfather and brothers still live. They would then be provided with 24 hour police protection via a panic button.The media may also be barred from reporting details of Chindamo's...

Woman gives birth to healthy son after defying doctors who told her to abort 'disabled' babyLast updated at 16:03pm on 23rd July 2007A couple were advised by medical experts to abort their unborn child amid fears he would be severely disabled - but he was born perfectly healthy. Heather O'Connor and Jamie Bramley went through months of turmoil after being told that scans suggested part of the baby's brain could be missing. But Jake, their first baby, arrived weighing a healthy 7lb 9oz - and with no defects. Consultants at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester had recommended Heather should...

Geraldo Rivera’s breathless tease By Michelle Malkin  •  July 16, 2007 08:09 AM If you want ignorant ranting about immigration and the Zina Linnik case, go watch Geraldo Rivera (thanks to readers for e-mailing me about it over the weekend and AP for clipping the vid). Utterly shameless. Geraldo teased his Saturday night segment on the case by claiming that Zina’s uncle, Anatoly Kalchik, would argue that Zina’s accused murderer should be called a “monster” instead of an “immigrant:” GERALDO: The tragic story was twisted to aggravate the immigration debate… A little girl snatched and brutally murdered. Tonight her family speaks...