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HIGHLAND RANCH, United States (AFP) — One of the two suspects in a Colorado school shooting that left a student dead and eight wounded is a girl, Denver police said Wednesday. The sheriff of Douglas County, in the Denver suburbs, initially said his men had arrested two boys after Tuesday’s shooting spree, both students at the Highlands Ranch STEM school. One of the suspects was 18 and the other was a minor. But Sheriff Tony […]
https://youtu.be/PP4bbBq2K5s (Eagle News) – Philippine National Police National Capital Region chief major general Guillermo Eleazar was livid with rage as he scolded a Caloocan City police cop who killed a six-year old boy and intentionally shot the boy’s grandmother on Sunday. Eleazar said that the policeman, Cpl. Rocky delos Reyes, will face the full force of the law and will be removed from the police service as he did not deserve to be in […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A man who allegedly stabbed a priest in front of his congregation live on television during mass at Canada’s biggest church was charged Saturday with attempted murder and assault with a weapon. Vlad Cristian Eremia, 26, appeared briefly by video link in a Montreal court on Saturday afternoon, sporting a beard and wearing a checked shirt. He will remain in custody, with his next hearing on Monday. The suspect is […]
by Julien Besset Agence France Presse MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — A priest was stabbed in front of his congregation live on television during morning mass on Friday at Canada’s biggest church, in what police described as an isolated incident. Footage broadcast on a Catholic television station and picked up by the top-rated CTV network showed a man in jeans, parka and white baseball cap approach Claude Grou at St Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, in […]
by Jerome TAYLOR The Muslim call to prayer rang out across New Zealand on Friday followed by two minutes of nationwide silence to mark a week since a white supremacist gunned down 50 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch. As the call was broadcast around the country, thousands — including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and wounded survivors — stood in a park opposite the mosque where the killing began, as the nation […]
New Zealand police on Thursday admitted that the person they originally charged suspected mosques gunman Brenton Tarrant with murdering is actually still alive. “An error was made in the charging document prepared for the first court appearance of the man charged with murder in relation to the Christchurch terror attacks,” a police spokesman told AFP. “The error saw an incorrect victim name included in the charging document.” Tarrant appeared in court Saturday on the first […]
by Marc Preel and Joseph Schmid PARIS, France (AFP) — The French government sacked the top police official in Paris on Monday following another weekend of rioting in the capital during “yellow vest” protests which have put President Emmanuel Macron on the defensive. The police’s failure to keep the Paris protests from spiralling out of control over the weekend again cast a harsh spotlight on their tactics. About 5,000 police were deployed in the capital […]
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) –New Zealand police said they have detained four people in connection with deadly shootings at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday and had secured a number of improvised explosive devices. “Four are in custody, three of them are men and one is a woman,” commissioner Mike Bush said, saying there were “significant” and “multiple” fatalities. He said the suspected IEDs found attached to the attackers’ vehicles had been made safe by […]
(Eagle News)—The Alliance of Concerned Teachers has asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider its earlier decision not to stop the Philippine National Police’s alleged profiling of the group’s members. In seeking for the appellate court’s reconsideration, ACT said its petition seeking for a halt order of the PNP’s supposed activities raised, after all, “issues involving gross violations of the petitoners’ fundamental constitutional rights” which include their right to association, right to assembly and […]
Entire Cavite Maritime section sacked (Eagle News)–A high-ranking maritime police official in Cavite was arrested for allegedly extorting money from an association of fishermen in exchange for fishing rights in the area. The Philippine National Police’s Counter – Intelligence Task Force, which runs after police scalawags, said Supt. Armandy Dimabuyo, commander of the 402nd Cavite Maritime Police Station, was arrested after he received the P18,000 from the fishermen as this month’s grease money in his office. The […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police on Thursday, Feb. 21, lauded President Rodrigo Duterte’s signing of a law that modifies the rank classification of policemen. In a statement, PNP spokesperson Senior Supt. Bernard Banac said the modified rank classification will “definitely” lead to “more performance output and productivity from PNP uniformed personnel..” He said this was because they would have a “high morale as they will be called again the way they were addressed before.” According […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A young US rapper shot dead by police in northern California earlier this month after he was found slumped over in his car was struck by around 25 bullets, a family lawyer said on Wednesday. Melissa Nold told AFP that six police officers shot Willie McCoy — who used the stage name Willie Bo — in the face, throat, chest, right ear, arms and shoulders on February 6 […]
