PARIS: A French police officer will face trial next year on charges of voluntary homicide over the killing of a 17-year-old of North African descent, a death that triggered nationwide riots.The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where victim Nahel Merzouk grew up and was killed in 2023, announced in a statement that […]
A uniformed NYPD housing officer, aged 27, was brutally beaten and robbed gun with other things while he was off-duty in the Bronx on Saturday. The incident occurred around 4.10 am on St. Peters Avenue in Parkchester as he walked towards his vehicle after completing his shift.Two assailants, dressed entirely in black, attacked the officer […]
Representative Image (AI-generated) Alaska’s largest city has reached a USD 2.1 million settlement with the family of a 16-year-old girl who was holding a knife last August when she was fatally shot by a police officer.Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance’s office said in a statement Thursday the settlement followed a meeting between police chief Sean Case […]
Mistrial for Michigan police officer charged in fatal shooting of Congolese immigrant (Photo: AP) A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after the jury in Michigan couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in the second-degree murder trial of a police officer who shot Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, in the back of the head following a traffic […]
A jury in Grand Rapids, Mich., began hearing testimony on Monday in the murder trial of a white former police officer who fatally shot a Black man as the two scuffled on the ground after a traffic stop in 2022. There is no dispute about the basic sequence of events that began as the officer, […]
A German police officer on Sunday shot and killed a man who threatened people with a knife outside a night club in the northern city of Oldenburg.The man also used an “irritant gas” against two night club employees, and later, on a group of police officers.Also Read: Hundreds at solidarity march after synagogue attack in […]
Vice admiral Shoshana Chatfield, has been dismissed by the Trump administration, US officials confirmed on Monday. Though no clear reason was given, news agency Associated Press sources said her removal appears to be linked to her public support for diversity within the military ranks. According to officials, Chatfield received a phone call from admiral Christopher […]
