An Ohio officer who shot and killed a pregnant Black mother in a supermarket parking lot after she was accused of shoplifting has been acquitted of all charges, including murder, after multiple days of deliberation.
Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb could have faced up to life in prison for the shooting death of Ta’Kiya Young. A federal lawsuit filed against the police chief alleges that Grubb was not was not trained or supervised properly and “recklessly escalated” his response to the situation.
Grubb and Moynihan had approached Young’s parked car on Aug. 24, 2023, about a report that she was suspected of stealing alcohol from a Kroger store in the Columbus suburb. She partially lowered her window and protested as both officers cursed at her and yelled at her to get out. Bodycam video showed Grubb had his left hand on the car’s hood while pointing his gun at her with his right. Young could be heard asking them, “Are you going to shoot me?”
Then, she put on a turn signal and her car rolled slowly forward toward Grubb, who fired a single bullet into her chest, the recording showed.
Moments later, after the car came to a stop against the building, they broke the driver’s side window. Police said they tried to save her life, but she was mortally wounded. Young and her unborn daughter were pronounced dead at a hospital.
Grubb had pleaded not guilty to murder, involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault. A full-time officer with the township since 2019, he was placed on paid administrative leave after the shooting.
Jurors were shown the body cam video and heard expert testimony during the two-week trial. They heard from Sgt. Erick Moynihan, the officer who with Grubb had ordered Young out of her car. Grubb attended the trial but did not testify. He submitted a statement read into the record by a special agent for the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
This image from bodycam video released by the Blendon Township Police on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023, shows a bullet hole in the windshield of a car with Ta’Kiya Young inside after she was shot by a police officer outside a grocery store in Blendon Township, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, on Aug. 24. The pregnant Black mother was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting. Her unborn daughter did not survive. The image was pixelated by the source.
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In the statement, Grubb said he had positioned himself in front of Young’s vehicle to provide backup and to protect other people in the parking lot. He said he drew his gun after he heard Young fail to comply with Moynihan’s commands. When her car moved toward him, he said, he felt the vehicle hit his legs and shins and begin to lift his body off the ground as he shot.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge David Young, no relation to Ta’Kiya, dropped four of 10 counts relating to the death of Young’s unborn daughter, agreeing with defense attorneys that prosecutors failed to present proof that Grubb knew Young was pregnant when he shot her.
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The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension on Tuesday announced the identity of the man fatally shot by a deputy following a brief pursuit last week.
Authorities say 75-year-old Dennis Hoie, of Bagley, died during the Thursday incident.
According to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, deputy Noah Hallman with the Clearwater County Sheriff’s Office fired his department-issued firearm after Hoie fired a flare gun toward deputies.
Hallman, who has three years of law enforcement experience, has been placed on critical incident leave.
Investigators say a deputy recognized Hoie at a gas station on Central Street West in Bagley just after 12 p.m. and tried to arrest him on outstanding felony warrants. Hoie then fled in his pickup truck.
A Bagley police officer performed a PIT maneuver on Hoie’s vehicle, causing it to spin out and come to a stop in a residential driveway, the bureau says.
Law enforcement then attempted to get Hoie to exit his vehicle. Authorities say Hallman broke the passenger side window of the vehicle as Hoie “pulled a flare gun and fired it toward the deputies” on the opposite side of the vehicle. That’s when Hallman shot Hoie.
Despite life-saving attempts, Hoie died at the scene.
A deputy on the driver’s side of the vehicle suffered a graze injury to his head but did not need medical attention, according to the BCA.
Investigators allegedly recovered an orange flare gun from the scene of the shooting.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is still investigating the incident and, when complete, will present its findings to the Clearwater County Attorney’s Office for review.
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (WABC) — An investigation is underway after a gunman fired shots and struck police vehicles in Jersey City on Friday, according to officials.
Hudson County officials say Jersey City Police officers came under fire while driving marked police cars southbound on JFK Boulevard near Clinton Avenue around 1:20 p.m.
They say an armed male fired multiple shots, which struck both police vehicles.
While under fire, sources told Eyewitness News that one Jersey City Police sergeant exited the vehicle, engaged the gunman and returned fire.
According to sources, the suspect randomly opened fire on the officers. They were not looking for him and did not engage him before the gunman shot at them, striking their police vehicle several times.
Sources say it appeared the suspect was shot and the rushed to a nearby hospital. His condition is currently unknown.
Officials say no civilians were injured during the incident, and none of the four police officers who were shot at were struck.
They were taken to the local hospital for evaluation and treatment for trauma.
The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office said a thorough investigation will be conducted.
They are encouraging anyone with information pertinent to the investigation to reach out.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office is investigating the shooting of Nyah Mway, who was born in Myanmar and is a member of its Karen ethnic minority. Utica police said officers tackled the teenager to the ground and then shot him after a foot chase on Friday.
Police, who are conducting their own probe, released body camera video that showed a youth appearing to aim an object at them before they took him to the ground. The object was a BB gun that looked like an actual firearm, police said.
While the official investigations proceeded, Nyah Mway’s family and outraged community members demanded accountability for the death of the teen.
The mother of the 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed by Utica Police cries after listening to a translator inside City Hall in Utica, New York, U.S. June 29, 2024.
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“We came to the United States, finally, to get the education and to get the good jobs here,” hoping for a peaceful life after decades of strife and violence in Myanmar, Lay Htoo, who identified himself as one of Nyah’s cousins, told the Associated Press in a phone interview.
The teen’s parents were waiting for medical examiners to release his body and wondering what would become of the officers.
“They want them to be in prison forever,” the cousin said.
At a vigil Saturday night, Nyah Mway’s brother, Lah, said through an interpreter that he wouldn’t be satisfied until the officers “are put in jail,” Syracuse.com reported.
Others at the vigil questioned officials’ account of the shooting.
“None of it adds up,” said Kay Klo, one of those at the gathering.
According to police, Nyah Mway and another 13-year-old boy were stopped Friday night because they allegedly fit descriptions of suspects in an armed robbery that happened the day before in the same area. Police said one was also walking in the road, a violation of state traffic law.
The body camera video shows an officer saying he needs to pat them down for any weapons. While officers were questioning the teens, one of them – later identified as Nyah Mway – ran away, turned and appeared to point a black item at them.
Officer Bryce Patterson caught up with Nyah Mway, tackled and punched him, and as the two wrestled on the ground, Officer Patrick Husnay opened fire, body camera video showed. Utica Police Chief Mark Williams said at a news conference Saturday that the single shot hit the youth in the chest.
The teenager was taken to Wynn Hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Police said the item the boy was holding was later determined to be a BB or pellet gun that closely resembled a Glock 17 Gen 5 handgun with a detachable magazine. Police released an image showing the device did not have an orange band on the barrel that many BB gunmakers have added in recent years to distinguish their products from firearms.
A bystander video posted to Facebook and obtained by CBS News also showed an officer tackling the teen and punching him as two other officers arrived, then a gunshot ringing out as the teen was on the ground.
Regarding that video, police said in a statement that it was “aware of a video of the incident circulating on social media platforms, which does not portray the incident in its entirety.”
Husnay, Patterson and Officer Andrew Citriniti were placed on paid administrative leave as the investigations go forward.
Under New York law, the attorney general’s office looks into every death at the hands of law enforcement. The Utica Police Department’s probe, meanwhile, will explore whether officers followed policies and training.
The police chief called the shooting “a tragic and traumatic incident for all involved.”
To Nyah’s cousin, Isabella Moo, however, the police narrative seemed like “trying to criminalize him a lot more and trying to protect the police officers.”
“The escalation of this should not have happened, and our police officers need to be trained a lot better or a lot differently,” she said to AP in a phone interview. “The city needs to be held accountable, and this should not have been done to any child.”
Utica’s population of 65,000 includes more than 4,200 people from Myanmar, according to The Center, a nonprofit group that helps to resettle refugees.
Karens are among groups warring with the military rulers of Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country formerly known as Burma. The army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021 and suppressed widespread nonviolent protests that sought a return to democratic rule.
Nyah’s family fled about two decades ago from Myanmar to Thailand, where Nyah was born in a refugee camp, and then immigrated through a resettlement program to the U.S. about nine years ago, Htoo said. He said the teen’s father works at a convenience store.
Htoo said Nyah was keen on math, soccer and spending time with friends when he wasn’t caring for his younger siblings. Interested in learning, he sometimes attended Bible study with his friends, though his family members are Buddhists, the cousin said.
The cousin said he’d been told that on Friday night, the boy informed his mother he was going to a store to buy something, and that was the last she saw of him.
She hasn’t slept since, except for 10-minute naps, her tears resuming every time she awakens, he said.
Despite a mountain of evidence at the shooting scene, with some 80 shots fired by multiple offenders and witnesses present, one year later no one is in custody for 14-year-old Pierre Johnson’s murder.
Friends, teammates and loved-ones gathered Saturday to share pizza and memories of Johnson, whose death still leaves a void.
“I don’t think it ever gets less intense,” said Chris Cozzi, who cared for Johnson. “You know, you get better at getting through each day.”
Pierre was shot and killed on June 1, 2023 in the 4200 block of South Wells Street while sitting on a neighbor’s porch in the Fuller Park neighborhood. Four others were wounded in the shooting.
“I don’t really like to think about it,” Johnson’s friend Josh Martinez said. “It’s just hard to think about.”
Johnson lived with his family in Fuller Park, but spent summers and weekends during the school year with Cozzi and her family at their Southwest Side home, in part to escape the violence in his neighborhood. His brother, years earlier, was also a shooting victim.
Before his death, Johnson was thriving and playing travel baseball with teammates who were more like brothers.
“I feel like something’s missing from my heart, you know. It’s sad,” Johnson’s friend Blake Heyer said. “You know, I remember all the good times I had with him, remember how much he meant to us, how much of a joy he was to be around.”
“Not so much to make someone accountable and put someone in jail, but to make sure this behavior is called out and is as shocking to everybody else as it was to us and stops,” Cozzi said.
Cozzi is now working to set up a nonprofit to give at-risk youth opportunities to play baseball. She hopes to name it “Pierre’s Way.”
D.C. police have released body camera footage of shooting that left a man suspected of having a mental health episode earlier this month injured.
D.C. police have released body camera footage of shooting that left a man suspected of having a mental health episode earlier this month injured.
The shooting happened May 18, when police responded to calls at Virginia Avenue and 24th Street NW for a man, later identified as 28-year-old Jonathan Jefferson, who was deemed an immediate danger to himself and others by a responder from the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health.
Johnson was armed with a knife and when officers attempted to handcuff and detain him, he pulled the knife out of his pocket and stabbed an officer, police said in a news release.
“Don’t touch me,” Jefferson repeated several times as two officers each took hold of one of his arms.
“Get your hands off me,” he can be heard saying in the video, as a D.C. police sergeant told the officers to “hold him tight.”
Jefferson slipped the grasp of one of the officers, pulled a knife from his pocket and stabbed an officer, police said. The sergeant used his taser on Jefferson to no apparent effect. Then, as police said the man ran from officers, the sergeant fired nine shots from his service weapon.
Police said they recovered the suspect’s knife at the scene. (Courtesy Metropolitan Police Department)
Jefferson was shot in the hand and grazed on his thigh. He was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The officer who was stabbed was also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Officers recovered the suspect’s knife at the scene.
Jefferson is charged with four counts of assault on a police officer.
The officers involved remain on administrative leave as the shooting is under investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department Internal Affairs division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which will independently review the facts and evidence in the case.
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It happened at East 105th Street and Garfield Avenue just before dawn on St. Patrick’s Day. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner said a gunshot killed 26-year-old Antwoina M. Carter.
Police body camera video gives us the first look at what happened, as it happened.
Investigators and law enforcement sources said officers saw cars speeding down the block, and they heard gunshots from one car. Then, officers started firing shots.
On the video, you hear many gunshots before seeing any cars come into view. You also see officers firing shots, taking cover and calling out, “Shots fired. Shots fired.”
“Preliminary testing does not indicate that police activity was directly responsible for the decedent’s death,” Dr. Thomas Gilson is quoted in a news release.
The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department is investigating.
This week, the Sheriff’s Department said police found Carter at a vehicle that crashed at the scene. The other vehicle took off.
Police had gone there after getting a 911 call just before 4 a.m. from a woman identifying herself as Antwoina Carter. She said someone was sitting outside her house who’d been threatening her.
Police said they also had been told someone had shot out a car window, but they did not shoot into the house.
As the city released the body camera video, Police Chief Dorothy Todd also released a recorded statement. She stressed Cleveland police are not releasing many details now, with the case under investigation by another agency. She said the video is only a small part of the investigation.
Law enforcement sources have told the I-Team the officers believed someone was shooting at them.
The police union President Andy Gasiewski said he can’t comment on specifics with the investigation pending, but that “100 percent, there was an element of self-defense.”
There is also new video that has surfaced from the night of the shooting, which is being used in the investigation.
The officer who was shot was released Monday afternoon from Temple University Hospital. His name has not yet been made public.
The officer who was shot was released Monday afternoon from Temple University Hospital.
Now, those who were on the scene are questioning why police initially went into the grocery store.
Action News is showing the beginning of a social media video from a witness who started recording after police were already in a struggle with Spencer on the ground. It has also been blurred.
“Yo, what y’all doing, bruh? What y’all doing?” the witness recording the video can be heard saying.
Police say they are aware of this 30-second clip and that it’s part of the investigation.
The incident happened Friday night inside Jennifer Tavern on the corner of N. Mascher and W. Cambria streets in North Philadelphia.
Police say two officers entered the store and tried to stop Spencer before they got into a scuffle.
Spencer is then on the ground with one officer.
Officers say that’s when Spencer allegedly shot one officer in the leg and the officer’s partner returned fire, killing Spencer.
However, by watching the video, it’s unclear who fired shots first.
You can then hear the bystander who was recording questioning police and then an officer calls for help.
“I need someone right now. My partner is shot,” one of the officers is heard saying to his radio.
Investigators have not said why they tried to stop Spencer or what led to it.
Right now, police are searching for Quinones-Mendez, who is facing several charges, including obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence. He is considered armed and dangerous, according to police.
The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5 is offering a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to Quinones-Mendez’s arrest.
“Our reward is payable immediately, if the tip information leads to the whereabouts of this individual,” said, FOP Lodge #5 President, Roosevelt Poplar.
Quinones-Mendez is described as being 5’8″ tall and approximately 160 lbs. His last known address was on the 2900 block of North Hancock Street.
Spencer’s friends have since created a memorial in his honor outside of the store where they say he often went to play the slot machines.
“I just feel like I just want to know what really happened. What did he do? Y’all could’ve just arrested him. Y’all could’ve just done way better,” said one of Spencer’s friends who did not want to be identified.
The names of the two officers have not been released. The wounded officer has been on the force for nine years and the officer who fired has been on the force for five years.
The investigation is still ongoing.
Anyone with information on Quinones-Mendez’s whereabouts is being asked to call the Philadelphia police homicide unit at 215-686-3334 or 9-1-1.
A Philadelphia police officer surrendered and was arraigned on murder charges Friday in the shooting death of Eddie Irizarry during a traffic stop last month. Disturbing body camera footage of the shooting was also released. Jeff Pegues has more.
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Authorities on Friday released the body camera footage in the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Young, a pregnant Black woman, in Blendon Township, Ohio, last week. Young was shot after being accused of shoplifting. Nancy Chen has more.
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Racial justice groups and relatives of a Black man shot and killed this week by a Minnesota State Patrol trooper demanded Wednesday that the governor fire three officers who were involved in stopping the man on a Minneapolis freeway.
The groups and relatives of 33-year-old Ricky Cobb II made the demands at a news conference outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, two days after Cobb was killed during a traffic stop.
Ricky Cobb II in undated family photo
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Troopers had pulled over Cobb for a traffic stop early Monday on Interstate 94 in Minneapolis. Body and dash cam video from the state patrol show the taillights were out on the Ford Fusion Cobb was driving.
According to the head of the Minnesota State Patrol, after stopping the car, the troopers tried to take Cobb into custody for allegedly violating a restraining order before they fatally shot him as he began driving away.
Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, The Racial Justice Network, Black Lives Matter Minnesota and Cobb’s relatives gathered at the government center to demand that Democratic Gov. Tim Walz fire the state troopers who were involved in Cobb’s death and that Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty charge the officers in the case and issue a warrant for their arrests.
“The circumstances simply did not require the use of deadly force. Those officers acted recklessly and they must be held accountable,” Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and founder of the Racial Justice Network, said in the statement.
Family members of Ricky Cobb II, a Black man who was shot and killed by a Minnesota State Patrol trooper, speak at a news conference outside Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Aug. 2, 2023.
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Cobb’s mother, Nyra Fields-Miller, described the pain she has endured after her son’s death.
“I’m exhausted. My heart is heavy every day for the last three days. Waking up, I have migraines. And I’m hurt,” Fields-Miller said. “I would like those officers to man up.”
CBS News Minnesota reports that she also said, “I’m here to be a voice and stand strong like a rock that I am for my son and speak out.”
“My brother was a good man. He was a provider for all of us. He protected all of us,” said Octavia Ruffin, according to CBS News Minnesota.
The governor’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press about the family’s demand that Walz fire the troopers.
But Walz said earlier Wednesday on X, the social platform formerly called Twitter, that he had offered his condolences to Cobb’s mother and “assured her that a swift, thorough investigation has already begun and that we will do everything we can to get to the bottom of what happened.”
Authorities said that on Monday, the troopers who checked Cobb’s license found what Patrol Chief Col. Matt Langer called a “pick up and hold” on Cobb, meaning the nearby Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office suspected he committed a felony violation of a protection order and wanted to question him.
Langer said troopers checked to make sure Ramsey County deputies still wanted Cobb in custody, then tried to get him to leave the car.
When troopers opened his doors and attempted to pull him out, Cobb began driving with two troopers still hanging out the sides of the car, body and dash camera footage show. A trooper then shot him as he drove away.
The Hennepin County coroner ruled Cobb’s death a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds.
“A no-contact order doesn’t mean that an officer immediately gets to escalate to using force,” Emma Pederson, of Communities United Against Police Brutality, said at the news conference, according to CBS News Minnesota.
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating. Three troopers have been placed on administrative leave, per State Patrol policy.
Moriarty said in a statement Tuesday that her “heart goes out to Mr. Cobb’s family.” She noted previous deaths caused by police.
“I also know this community continues to navigate the trauma and grief that results from police violence and the tragic loss of our community members at the hands of law enforcement, no matter the circumstances,” she said. “And I know that our community wants answers. We will work as swiftly as possible to provide them.”
An inmate who escaped from a New Hampshire correctional facility was shot and killed by a police officer after threatening two people with a knife, officials said.
On July 21, Darien Young walked off the grounds of the Calumet House transitional housing unit — a facility for prisoner re-entry in Manchester — and didn’t return, the New Hampshire Department of Corrections said in a news statement.
Six days later, Miami Beach police said they received a 911 call at 5:32 p.m. that a man was threatening two people with a knife at a Victoria’s Secret. Police arrived at the location and an officer shot Young.
Young, 29, was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition, Miami Beach Police said.
He later died, the corrections department confirmed.
Young, who was incarcerated for controlled drugs, burglary and other charges, was eligible for parole on July 31.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate the shooting, the Miami Beach Police said.
French President Emmanuel Macron was to chair a new crisis meeting of ministers Friday after a third straight night of nationwide protests over the deadly police shooting of a teenager saw cars torched, shops ransacked and hundreds arrested.
The overnight unrest followed a march on Thursday in memory of the 17-year-old who is only being identified by his first name, Nahel. His death revived longstanding grievances about policing and racial profiling in France’s low-income and multiethnic suburbs.
The Elysee announced Macron would cut short a trip to Brussels, where he was attending a European Union summit, to chair a crisis meeting on the violence — the second such emergency talks in as many days.
Around 40,000 police and gendarmes — along with elite Raid and GIGN units — were deployed in several cities overnight, with curfews imposed in municipalities around Paris and bans on public gatherings instated in Lille and Tourcoing in the country’s north.
Despite the massive security deployment, violence and damage were reported in multiple areas.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said 667 people had been arrested in what he described as a night of “rare violence.”
The ministry also said 249 police and gendarmes were injured, none seriously.
Police sources said that rather than pitched battles between protesters and police, the night was marked by pillaging of shops, reportedly including flagship branches of Nike and Zara in Paris.
Police stand amid firecrackers on June 30, 2023 during the third night of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, France.
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Public buildings were also targeted, with a police station in the Pyrenees city of Pau hit with a Molotov cocktail, according to regional authorities, and an elementary school and a district office set on fire in Lille.
France has been rocked by successive nights of protests since Nahel was shot point-blank on Tuesday during a traffic stop captured on video.
In her first media interview since the shooting, Nahel’s mother, Mounia, told the France 5 channel: “I don’t blame the police, I blame one person: the one who took the life of my son.”
She said the 38-year-old officer responsible, who was detained and charged with voluntary manslaughter on Thursday, “saw an Arab face, a little kid, and wanted to take his life.”
The officer’s name wasn’t released, a French practice in criminal cases.
The memorial march for Nahel, led by Mounia, ended with riot police firing tear gas as several cars were set on fire in the western Paris suburb of Nanterre, where the teenager lived and was killed.
As part of measures to restore calm, Paris bus and tram services were halted after 9:00 pm local time Thursday, the region’s president said.
But the measures and heightened security appeared to do little to deter unrest Thursday night.
A demonstrator runs on June 30, 2023 during the third night of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, France.
Aurelien Morissard / AP
In the city center of Marseille, a library was vandalized, according to local officials, and scuffles broke out nearby when police used tear gas to disperse a group of 100 to 150 people who allegedly tried to set up barricades.
Multiple public buildings were also targeted in Seine-Saint-Denis, in the Paris metro area, according to a police source.
In the suburb of Drancy, rioters used a truck to force open the entrance to a shopping center that was then partly looted and burned, a police source said.
Firefighters in the northern municipality of Roubaix, meanwhile, dashed from blaze to blaze throughout the night, with a hotel near the train station also catching fire, sending its dozen or so residents fleeing into the streets.
In Nanterre, the epicentre of the unrest, tensions rose around midnight, with fireworks and explosives set off in the Pablo Picasso district, where Nahel had lived, according to an AFP journalist.
The government is desperate to avoid a repeat of 2005 urban riots, sparked by the death of two boys of African origin in a police chase, during which 6,000 people were arrested.
Macron has called for calm and said the protest violence was “unjustifiable.”
The riots are a fresh challenge for the president, who had been looking to move past some of the biggest demonstrations in a generation sparked by a controversial rise in the nation’s retirement age..
Nahel was killed as he pulled away from police who were trying to stop him for a traffic infraction.
A video, authenticated by AFP, showed two police officers standing by the side of the stationary car, with one pointing a weapon at the driver.
A voice is heard saying: “You are going to get a bullet in the head.”
The police officer then appears to fire as the car abruptly drives off.
Clashes first erupted as the video emerged, contradicting police accounts that the teenager was driving at the officer.
The officer’s lawyer, Laurent-Franck Lienard, told BFMTV late Thursday that his client had apologized as he was taken into custody.
“The first words he pronounced were to say sorry, and the last words he said were to say sorry to the family,” Lienard said.
The attorney said his client was was sorry and “devastated” but did what he thought was necessary in the moment, according to The Associated Press. “He doesn’t get up in the morning to kill people. … He really didn’t want to kill.”
Earlier on Thursday, Nanterre public prosecutor Pascal Prache had said, “The prosecution considers that the legal conditions for the use of the weapon” by the police officer who fired the shot “are not met.”
Three people, including one young child, were shot and killed in a suspected domestic violence incident in Orlando early Sunday morning, authorities said. The suspected shooter was also killed.
The incident happened at around 2:25 a.m. local time in Orlando’s Parramore neighborhood, the Orlando Police Department said in a statement. Officers initially arrived at the scene in response to a reported domestic violence call, and heard shots fired inside the home shortly after they got there, according to the statement.
“The suspect came out of the house and shot at officers who returned fire,” the police department said. The suspect was then transported to a hospital and confirmed dead.
Officers found two adults and one child suffering from gunshot wounds when they entered the home, according to Orlando Police. The child was transported to a local hospital and confirmed dead, the police department said, noting that both adult victims were also killed.
Neither of the two police officers involved in the shooting response sustained injuries, according to the police department. Both officers were placed on paid administrative leave after it happened, as various local and state agencies opened investigations into how the response was handled.
“As with all officer involved shootings, FDLE [the Florida Department of Law Enforcement] will conduct an independent review of the incident, followed by the State Attorney’s office,” the police department said. Orlando Police will additionally conduct an internal investigation of its own. Footage from the two responding officers’ body-worn cameras will be made available to the public within the next 30 days, according to the police department.
Orlando Police chief Eric Smith did not share any identifying details about the victims or their ages at a news briefing held about three hours after the shooting took place. Smith told reporters that it was unclear at that time whether the suspected shooter had a criminal history.
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An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the death of a Temple University police officer shot and killed near campus Saturday night, officials said.
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s office said Sunday the suspect, Miles Pfeffer, was arrested shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday at his Buckingham Township home by township and Philadelphia police, as well as state police and federal marshals. “Police used the fallen officer’s handcuffs in placing the suspect under arrest,” county prosecutors said.
Officer Christopher Fitzgerald was shot and killed in Philadelphia Saturday while responding to a robbery, the university said.
Pfeffer will face charges of murder, murder of a law enforcement officer, robbery, carjacking and weapons crimes. Prosecutors said Fitzgerald was shot in the head.
“Pfeffer is also alleged to have attempted to rob Officer Fitzgerald of his gun and to have gone through his pockets, while the officer was laying on the ground and fatally wounded,” District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a statement Sunday. “Pfeffer is further alleged to have committed a carjacking a short time after, close to the location of the officer’s murder.”
Fitzgerald was rushed to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the university said Saturday.
Temple University officials said Fitzgerald had been on the university police force since October 2021.
Remembering and honoring our forever hero, Police Officer Christopher Fitzgerald.
Officer Fitzgerald gave his life protecting the temple community and we are forever indebted to him. He valiantly served the temple community and the people of Philadelphia
— Temple University Police Association (@officialTUPA) February 19, 2023
“Officer Fitzgerald gave his life to selflessly serve and defend this community,” Jennifer Griffin, the university’s vice president for public safety, said in a statement. “This loss leaves an enormous hole in all of our hearts. He was a father, a husband, a son, a colleague, and a friend.”
University president Jason Wingard said he was “heartbroken” and called the shooting “a gut-wrenching reminder of our police officers’ daily bravery and sacrifices to protect our students, faculty, staff and community” as the city and the nation deal with “an unprecedented epidemic of violence.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro tweeted that he and his wife were “devastated for the family of the Temple University police officer who was killed in the line of duty tonight, bravely serving his community.”
Lori and I are devastated for the family of the Temple University police officer who was killed in the line of duty tonight, bravely serving his community.
We’re sending prayers to his loved ones, Temple Police, and the entire @TempleUniv community. May his memory be a blessing.
An officer for the Temple University Police Department was shot and killed in Philadelphia Saturday while responding to a robbery, the university said.
The officer was trying to apprehend a suspect in connection with the robbery of a convenience store near campus when the shooting occurred, the university said in a statement to CBS News.
The officer was rushed to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the university said. His name was not immediately released.
“There are simply no words that can make sense of such a tragedy,” the university said in its statement. “It tears at our sense of community, and wounds us to our very soul. Temple has lost an officer and hero to senseless violence.”
The exact circumstances of the shooting were still unclear. There was no word on whether any suspects were in custody. Philadelphia police were assisting in the investigation, the university said.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro tweeted that he and his wife were “devastated for the family of the Temple University police officer who was killed in the line of duty tonight, bravely serving his community.”
Lori and I are devastated for the family of the Temple University police officer who was killed in the line of duty tonight, bravely serving his community.
We’re sending prayers to his loved ones, Temple Police, and the entire @TempleUniv community. May his memory be a blessing.
A photo of Manuel Teran, who was shot and killed by a Georgia State Trooper in Atlanta, GA.
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Police officials have said Teran, who was known as “Tortuguita,” was killed on Jan. 18 after the activist shot and wounded a state trooper during an operation to clear protesters near the training facility in Atlanta’s forested outskirts.
“Manny was a kind person who helped anyone who needed it. He was a pacifist. They say he shot a police officer. I do not believe it,” said his mother, Belkis Teran, in a press release. “I do not understand why they will not even privately explain to us what happened to our child.”
The family said they have contacted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the agency investigating the shooting, but haven’t received a response.
An abandoned protest campsite is seen days after protester Manuel Teran was killed during a police raid.
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has said the shooting was not recorded on body cameras. Police said the gun used in the shooting against the trooper was purchased by Teran in September 2020. On Wednesday, Jan. 25, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that a special prosecutor will be assigned to review the case, but critics are calling for an independent investigation.
“Any evidence, even if it is only an audio recording, will help the family piece together what happened on the morning of January 18th,” said family attorney Brian Spears. “This information is critical, and it is being withheld.”
In a statement on its website, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said it is “not releasing any videos currently because agents are continuing to conduct key interviews and want to maintain the integrity of the investigation. We ask for your patience while we go through the processes needed to complete the investigation. At that time, our case file will be given to a special prosecutor.”
Investigations typically take about 60-90 days to complete, police said, and investigators are reviewing the actions of all individuals connected to this incident, including Teran and law enforcement. Police are reviewing body camera videos, witness statements and forensic evidence.
Family lawyers plan to release additional findings on the private autopsy and demand access to the investigation during a press conference scheduled for Monday.
Tyre Nichols was restrained, beaten, blasted with a Taser and pepper sprayed by officers after a traffic stop, family members say, before he died from his injuries on Jan. 10, three days after the police encounter.
Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy recently announced indictments against five former Memphis police officers who were fired for their actions during Nichols’ arrest. Video footage of Nichols’ arrest is expected to be released sometime after 7 p.m. ET tonight, with cities nationwide bracing for protests.
Mulroy said with any officer-involved fatality, there will be a “certain amount of public agitation.”
“When people actually see with their own eyes the kinds of things that occurred in this incident, there’s an even greater potential for very serious public reaction,” Mulroy told “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King. “There’s room for protest if people feel the need. We are confident that the protests will be peaceful.”
Five former Memphis police officers were charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping in the death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in January 2023.
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Mulroy said the charges against the officers involved had to be announced before the release of the video due to the possibility of public outrage.
Authorities have not released many details regarding what led to Nichols’ arrest and what happened after he was pulled over. What we do know is that the night of Jan. 7, Nichols, a 29-year-old father and FedEx worker who was an avid skateboarder, was coming home from a suburban park where he took photos of the sunset, according to his family’s attorneys. On the way home, he was stopped for reckless driving, according to Memphis police.
As officers approached Nichols to arrest him, a “confrontation” occurred, and Nichols fled, according to police. A second “confrontation” occurred at some point before Nichols was arrested. He complained of having a shortness of breath, and an ambulance was called, police said. Nichols was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Three days later, on Jan. 10, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said he died of his injuries, but did not elaborate on what they were or release a cause of death.
Rodney Wells, Nichols’ stepfather, told CBS affiliate WREG-TV that his stepson suffered cardiac arrest and kidney failure due to the beating by officers.
The five Memphis officers charged in Nichols’ death are Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills, Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith. They were fired on Jan. 20. All five are Black.
King asked Mulroy — who announced on Thursday that a grand jury had handed down indictments on charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct and official oppression against all five former officers — to offer perspective on how bad the tape of Nichols’ arrest is.
“Suffice it to say we believe there was no ambiguity in the tape,” he said. “Once they see it, I don’t think there will be debate on whether use of force was justified.”
Even so, Mulroy said the majority of police are “well-intended, dedicated and well-meaning people,” in regards to whether the Nichols’ arrest is the result of a problem with policing in the U.S. involving people of color. Mulroy mentioned the need for citizen review boards in cities to quell problems.
“My hope is that this will spark a broader conversation about how we can change that culture and improve supervision,” he said.
Mulroy said a number of activists and community leaders who happen to be people of color have said they feared the reaction to the video will be “one of more of pain and disappointment on the part of the African American community.”
“I can’t speak to that, but what I can say is, there’s an expression in the community of blue trumping Black,” he said.
Mulroy added that with cases like the one involving Nichols, race is a crucial element.
“The most relevant consideration is not the race of the officer,” Mulroy said, “but the race of the citizen involved.”
A Brackenridge police officer was shot and killed and another officer was wounded Monday, police said. The suspect was shot and killed by police later in the night, police said.
Allegheny County Police Superintendent Christopher Kearns said Monday night that police encountered a wanted suspect, identified as 28-year-old Aaron Lamont Swan, and engaged in a foot chase that lasted several hours. There were two shooting incidents several blocks apart.
In one, an officer was shot in the head and killed, Kearns said. The deceased officer has not been publicly identified, but sources identified him to CBS Pittsburgh as Brackenridge police chief Justin McIntire, who had been chief since 2018.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro tweeted, “Police Chief Justin McIntire ran towards danger to keep Pennsylvanians safe — and he made the ultimate sacrifice in service to community.”
Today’s tragedy in Brackenridge is a devastating reminder of the bravery of those who put their lives on the line every day to protect us.
Police Chief Justin McIntire ran towards danger to keep Pennsylvanians safe — and he made the ultimate sacrifice in service to community.
Another officer was then shot in the leg in the second incident. That officer was transported to a hospital and was in stable condition, Kearns said.
The suspect was wounded, but was able to flee after carjacking a vehicle, according to police. After police located the stolen car, the suspect led them on another chase. He crashed and then fled into a wooded area, police said. He then emerged from the woods into an open area in a housing development, where he fired at police officers, Kearns said Monday night. The officers returned fire, killing Swan, according to Kearns.
The people to whom the carjacked vehicle belonged were not harmed, police said.
Swan was originally wanted for an alleged weapons violation of his probation, and police had encountered him Sunday night, but he was able to evade them following a chase.
Brackenridge is located in Alleghany County, a few miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
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Aaron Dean, the former Texas police officer who was convicted of manslaughter in the 2019 killing of Atatiana Jefferson, has been sentenced to 11 years, 10 months and 12 days in prison.
The decision was announced on the afternoon of Tuesday, Dec. 20, less than a week after Dean was found guilty of manslaughter on Dec. 15.
“This verdict and sentence won’t bring Atatiana Jefferson back,” Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney Sharen Wilson said in a statement following the sentencing. “This trial was difficult for all involved, including our community. My sympathies remain with Atatiana’s family and friends and I pray they find peace. This trial wasn’t about politics and it wasn’t about race. If someone breaks the law, they have to be held accountable. The jury agreed. We thank the jury members for making sure justice was served.”
Dean was initially indicted on a murder charge, but before the jury began deliberations, the judge in the case told them they could consider a manslaughter verdict, which in Texas carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Sentencing deliberations began on Monday. The jury deliberated for more than seven hours before breaking for the day.
The sentencing ends a long-delayed trial that began three years after Jefferson was killed in her Forth Worth-area home. Dean arrived at her house on Oct. 12, 2019, responding to a call about an open front door after a neighbor made a report to a nonemergency police line. Dean said that he believed a burglary was in process, though Jefferson’s nephew, who was in the home at the time of the shooting, said that the door had been left open to vent smoke from hamburgers he burned.
While looking for signs of an intruder, Dean went into the backyard of the house. Prosecutor Dale Smith contended that Dean did not announce himself at any time. Jefferson’s nephew, who was 8 years old at the time of the shooting, said his aunt grabbed a handgun she owned because she heard noises outside.
The main question of the trial was whether Dean saw Jefferson’s weapon before opening fire himself. Dean testified that he had seen the barrel of the gun pointed at him, so he opened fire; his defense attorney Bob Gill said in closing statements that Dean had a right to self defense.
Smith argued that Dean did not give Jefferson time to comply with commands, such as raising her hands; body camera footage released by the Fort Worth Police Department shows Dean shooting Jefferson about a second after he first addressed her. Prosecutors alleged that Dean never saw the gun, and described him as a “gung-ho, hard-charger” who “just shot.”
Dean had completed his police academy training the year before the 2019 shooting, and quit the force two days after the shooting, hours before he was arrested and charged with murder.
