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France police shooting: violence erupts for a third consecutive night

Police fire teargas at rioters as 6,000 march through Nanterre to protest against shooting of 17-year-old

The Guardian - UK

Ex-student sentenced to 16-plus years in prison for 2022 attack on Las Vegas high school teacher

A former Las Vegas high school student has been sentenced to 16-plus years in Nevada state prison for attacking a female teacher after classes ended for the day more than a year ago

The Independent UK

Appeals hearing asks whether a weapon’s popularity should exempt it from Illinois’ sweeping gun ban

CHICAGO — Attorneys for gun rights supporters seeking to overturn Illinois’ sweeping gun ban faced tough questioning Thursday from a pair of federal appellate judges in Chicago.

Chicago Tribune

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Highland Park one year later: Advocacy becomes a way of coping, ‘doing the work they can’t do’

Several people who witnessed last year’s massacre rallied outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, where judges heard a challenge to the Illinois assault weapons ban.

Chicago Sun-Times

NAACP holds rally after Georgia police post target practice image of Black man

ATLANTA — The Georgia and Carroll County chapters of the NAACP led a protest Thursday afternoon against the Villa Rica Police Department over images showing a picture of a Black man being used as a shooting target during a safety class earlier this month.

Tribune News Service

New Mexico prosecutors: Man accused in deadly movie theater shooting is a danger to the community

Prosecutors say a man accused in a deadly movie theater shooting in New Mexico's largest city is a danger to the community and should be held pending trial

The Independent UK

Parkland cop accused of failing to confront shooter who killed 17 kids weeps in dock

A Florida sheriff's deputy, Scot Peterson, has been acquitted of felony child neglect charges for failing to act during the 2018 Parkland school shooting, that cost the lives of 17 people

Daily Mirror

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Public kept out of courtroom as judge weighs evidence in South Carolina police ambush case

A judge has shut a courtroom from the public and reporters as he heard pretrial motions in the death penalty case of a South Carolina man charged with killing two police officers in a 2018 ambush

The Independent UK

US officer found not guilty of neglect in Parkland shooting

Jury acquits Scot Peterson of felony child neglect, other charges linked to response to deadly 2018 high school attack.

Al Jazeera

Ex-school deputy found not guilty of all charges in Parkland mass shooting

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Former School Resource Officer Scot Peterson, the only person other than the gunman to face charges in the 2018 Parkland massacre, accused of failing to rush into the building to confront the mass shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, has been found not…

Tribune News Service

Soldier 'shoots wife dead' at her birthday party in front of their kids before fleeing

Jordan Mykol Henning, a soldier stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, allegedly shot his wife, Ashley Henning dead during her birthday party in Rineyville, Hardin County

Daily Mirror

‘This is war’: France burns amid angry protests after teenager shot dead by police in Paris suburb

Anthony Cuthbertson reports from Nanterre, where the killing of 17-year-old Nahel has sparked widespread outrage spilling over into nights of violence

The Independent UK

Deputy acquitted of all charges for failing to act during deadly Parkland school shooting

A former Florida sheriff’s deputy has been found not guilty of failing to act during the 2018 Parkland high school massacre

The Independent UK

French suburbs are burning. How a teen's killing is focusing anger over police tactics

The fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old outside Paris this week has set off widespread disorder in French suburbs, with protesters burning cars, garbage and buildings

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Gun advocates challenge Biden administration rules on handgun braces at appeals court

Appellate court judges in New Orleans closely questioned a government attorney over a Biden administration rule aimed at curbing the use of stabilizing braces

France 24

Why deadly police shootings are on the rise on France’s roads

The death of 17-year-old Nahel, shot by a police officer on Tuesday in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, is not the first of its kind. Fatal shootings by police officers during traffic stops are on the rise in France. While police say it’s due to a spike in public non-compliance…

The Independent UK

The DC Snipers shot dead 10 people through a hole in a Chevy trunk. Tarot cards secured their capture

While residents of the DC Metropolitan Area went about their daily activities, they were shot by two snipers aiming through a hole cut out of the trunk of a Chevy Caprice. Ten people lost their lives during a 23-day reign of terror now documented in Netflix’s Catching Killers. Rachel Sharp…

Tribune News Service

France deploys 40,000 police amid protests over teen’s death

French authorities charged a police officer with murder in the shooting of a teenager earlier this week as the country braced for another night of violent clashes over the killing.

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Al Jazeera

French police officer under investigation over teenager’s killing

Curfew in Calamart aimed at restoring order after unrest erupted over deadly police shooting of a teenager on Tuesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Federal appeals court considering Illinois assault weapons ban questions ‘popularity contest’ for guns

The arguments before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals took place five days before the anniversary of the mass shooting during Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade, which prompted the assault-weapons ban.

The Independent UK

Riots in Paris: Where are the French riots and why are they happening?

The shooting of the 17-year-old teenager has sparked outrage in a number of cities

Radio France Internationale

France braces for another night of unrest as policeman charged with killing teen

Fresh clashes broke out in a Paris suburb on Thursday evening, where thousands of people had gathered for a march to remember a French teen killed by police during a traffic stop. The officer has been charged with homicide, but public anger over the shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M. is…

Daily Mirror

Return to Fallujah: 'We'll never forget dozens of unarmed students shot by US forces'

The Mirror has returned to the scene of the bloodshed after negotiating via contacts for safe passage

Chronicle Live

Man found not guilty of murdering a grandad in Cullercoats by reason of insanity

Andrew Peacock killed Lee Santos by stabbing him at least 59 times but was suffering from "confusion, amnesia and temporary paranoid psychosis" as a result of an epileptic fit at the time

Tribune News Service

KCPD officer who killed Malcolm Johnson was named in earlier police brutality case

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City police officer who killed a Black man inside a gas station in a controversial shooting two years ago had previously been accused of injuring a disabled man during a traffic stop in 2015, according to internal police documents.

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