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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – by Olivia HAMPTON Protesters threw rocks and fired shots in a second night of violence in a tense neighborhood of Milwaukee following the deadly police shooting of an armed black man. Police dressed in riot gear moved in on the Sherman Park neighborhood around 11:00 pm on Sunday (0400 GMT Monday) to disperse an angry crowd and restore order. Several police officers have been targeted and shot dead across the nation […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – by Jennie MATTHEW A US government report on Wednesday delivered a scathing indictment of the Baltimore police department, concluding that officers had disproportionately and illegally stopped, searched and arrested African Americans for years. The Justice Department findings follow a 14-month investigation, launched after a 25-year-old black man, Freddie Gray, died from injuries sustained in police custody. His death sparked riots in a city troubled by crime, poverty and segregation problems, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) by Fanny ANDRE US prosecutors on Wednesday dropped all charges against police in the death of Freddie Gray, an African American whose fatal injury in custody provoked riots in Baltimore, despite insisting he had been killed. The lead prosecutor defended efforts to convict six officers on charges ranging from second degree murder to reckless endangerment, but criticized “reluctance and obvious bias” from individual police officers who worked to undermine the case and said […]
