Police officers hang their handcuffs in large quantities. The wave of finer firings began after George Floyd’s police murder on May 25, with 272 uniformed police officers filing retirement documents from then until June 24, New York police say. That’s a 49 percent increase from the 183 officers who filed …
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President Trump designated himself Monuments Man, and was tasked with personally circulating images of suspects accused of vandalizing a statue of Andrew Jackson in the nation’s capital earlier this week. Trump tweeted 15 flyers from the US Park Police Department asking for public help to identify people accused of disfiguring …
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Attorney General Bill Barr said Friday that he was forming a new government task force to target “anti-government extremists.” Barr described the new group in a note obtained by the Washington Post. “Although these extremists profess a variety of ideologies, they are united in their opposition to the basic constitutional …
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Security for me but not for you. Three members of the Minneapolis City Council who voted to eliminate the local police force are protected by a private security detail that costs taxpayers $ 4,500 a day. The news of the deal came out Friday, the same day the council voted …
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The black officer charged with the death of George Floyd had joined the force to protect other black youths from police abuse, arguing that more police officers like him could change the Minneapolis force. J. Alexander Kueng is now being denounced by members of his own family. Kueng’s mission to …
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