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New York (AFP) - As a storm broke over New York, riot police mounted a tall ladder on a reinforced truck to penetrate a building at Columbia University and clear out barricaded pro-Palestinian protesters. Scores of armed, helmet-clad NYPD officers arrived in the north-west of Manhattan on Tuesday evening, accompanied by buses and trucks, as they set up barriers around the grounds of the prestigious institution. Columbia, which counts 37,000 students and is typically open to the public, was entirely surrounded. Called into action after a request for help from university president Minouche Shafi...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - One of two paramedics who injected a young Black man with ketamine as he was put in a chokehold by US police was sentenced Friday to 14 months in jail with work release and probation, in the final chapter of a case that became a clarion call in the Black Lives Matter movement. Jeremy Cooper had been convicted in December of criminally negligent homicide over the death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old who died several days after a struggle with police in Colorado. He had suffered a cardiac arrest in the ambulance in the moments after his forceful arrest. At a court ...
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New York (AFP) - US actor Jonathan Majors was sentenced Monday to a year of domestic violence counseling, but avoided jail time after being convicted of assaulting and harassing his then-girlfriend -- a saga that cost him a prime role in Marvel's superhero blockbusters. Marvel dropped the 34-year-old Majors -- whose villainous character Kang the Conqueror was due to be front and center in at least two upcoming films -- after his conviction in December 2023. Majors debuted as Kang in "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" earlier in 2023, and was set to appear in at least two subsequent Avengers f...
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Newberry Springs (United States) (AFP) - "Sheriff's Department! Search Warrant," shout armed officers as they enter a property in the heart of the Californian desert, where they soon find hundreds of illegal cannabis plants. Marijuana was fully legalized in the state in 2016 following a public vote, in a move that proponents said would bring an end to a huge black market and the crime and nuisance associated with it. In reality, the sector has boomed, with illegal growers tempted by the promise of fat profits for operators who don't have to worry about licenses, standards and even paying for t...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Newly released video shows US police shooting dead a kidnapped teenage girl they had been tasked with rescuing, in a chaotic incident on a busy California highway. Savannah Graziano, 15, was gunned down as one deputy called her away from her gun-toting father, who had killed her mother a day earlier and abducted his daughter. The episode unfolded in September 2022 when officers in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, began chasing the vehicle Anthony Graziano was driving with Savannah in the passenger seat. Footage filmed by a California Highway Patrol helicopter and...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A teenage girl shot herself dead with a deputy's gun in the lobby of a sheriff's station in California, authorities said Monday. The girl, who has not been named, began hammering on the door of the station in City of Industry, near Los Angeles, on Sunday evening. As officers went to open the door, the girl managed to grab a service weapon from one of them. "The juvenile lunged into the lobby and reached for the deputy's holstered firearm and took possession of it," the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. "A struggle ensued between the deputies an...
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Washington (AFP) - A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy who took part in the torture of two Black men with fellow white officers who called themselves the "Goon Squad" was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Thursday. Brett McAlpin, four other former members of the Rankin County Sheriff's Department and a former member of the Richland Police Department pleaded guilty in August to multiple offenses. McAlpin, 53, and Joshua Hartfield, 32, the Richland policeman, were the final members of the group to be sentenced on charges that included civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights and obstruc...
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Washington (AFP) - A former Mississippi policeman who carried out a brutal attack on two Black men with fellow white officers who called themselves the "Goon Squad" was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Hunter Elward, four other former members of the Rankin County Sheriff's Department and a former member of the Richland Police Department pleaded guilty in August to multiple offenses. Elward, 31, who shot one of the men in the mouth during the attack, was the first member of the group to be sentenced on charges that included civil rights conspiracy, deprivation of rights and obstruction ...
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Trenton (United States) (AFP) - An "extremely dangerous" suspect was taken into custody in New Jersey on Saturday after allegedly shooting dead three family members, authorities said, following an hours-long effort to detain him. Andre Gordon, 26, "surrendered peacefully," Trenton Police Department spokesperson Lisette Rios told AFP, after a trail of violence that triggered shelter-in-place orders in two states. Authorities said Gordon, who is believed to be homeless, began the day by carjacking a vehicle in Trenton before driving some 40 miles (65 kilometers) to the northern Philadelphia sub...
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Trenton (United States) (AFP) - An "extremely dangerous" suspect armed with an assault rifle was holed up in a New Jersey home on Saturday, authorities said, as police negotiators tried to coax him out after he allegedly killed three family members in two earlier shootings. Police had tracked 26-year-old Andre Gordon to the three-story house after a trail of violence that set off shelter-in-place orders in two states. "Andre, get away from the windows. We know you're inside, if you'd like to surrender, dial 911 now," police said over a loudspeaker. "You're a young man, you have too much to liv...
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