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During his brief speech to students, Emanuel alluded to the city’s crisis since the release of dashcam video showing the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald, noting “it’s a particular time in the city”.

Sessomes, who has lived across the street from Porter’s family in North Baltimore for 30 years, also watched along with the city and nation as the rookie policeman became the first officer to be tried in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray.

Prosecutors have not said if they will charge Officer George Hernandez in the shooting.

Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said she timed the rare murder charge against an on-duty police officer before the court-ordered release of the video to the public. The DOJ will scrutinize Chicago police from top to bottom as agents try to determine if...

“Donald Trump has been the most successful candidate in driving the dialogue and defining the stakes since Ronald Reagan in 1980”, he said.

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch (C) speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta (L), head of the Civil Rights Division and US Attorney Zachary T Fardon (R) of the Northern District of IL looks on...

In the weeks since the November 24 release of the video of Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times, Chicagoans have protested the city’s leadership and its presumed cover up of McDonald’s death.

Despite Emanuel issuing an apology, several prominent Chicago pastors have rejected Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s gesture of forgiveness and are demanding that his administration release yet another dash cam recording in which a white police officer fatally shot seventeen-year-old...

Mo Shaoping, Pu’s defense lawyer, told Reuters that Pu had admitted that he wrote the seven microblog posts, apologized if he “caused injury to other people” with the posts, and declared that he had “no intention to incite ethnic hatred or pick quarrels...

The accused would be taken to New Delhi in transit remand by the Delhi Police and IB after being produced in the Salepur court in Cuttack district.

The city has also seen near daily protests in which activists have called on Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign.

USA authorities will look at the department’s use of force, including deadly force, among other issues, she said at a news briefing to announce the civil probe.

The woman and the other man arrested are suspected of supplying weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and then four other people at a kosher store in January, the sources said.

Chinese authorities tried one of the country’s most prominent human rights lawyers behind closed doors on Monday morning, as police roughed up protesters, journalists and diplomats who gathered outside of a Beijing courthouse hoping to observe the proceedings.

Williams dismissed the eight women and four men on the panel, telling them “thank you for your diligence”. They also have suggested that he might have deliberately injured himself. There is as of yet no news on a retrial.