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Unnecessary SWAT Raid Ended in the Death of an Albuquerque Teen

This was an attempted arrest of a man wanted for questioning and parole violations, not a hostage situation.

Reason

New Mexico boy, 15, dies of smoke inhalation during SWAT raid, police say

‘In our effort to track down and arrest a violent criminal, a young person tragically lost his life,’ police chief says

The Independent UK

Highland Park shooting suspect’s mother was convicted of abandoning him in hot car when he was two

Highland Park Police responded to at least nine domestic disputes between Robert Crimo’s parents from 2010 to 2014

The Independent UK

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Highland Park shooting suspect’s mother confronted SWAT team hours after shooting

Denise Pesina was seen pictured in an angry encounter with police after the July 4th mass shooting

The Independent UK

This Innocent Woman's House Was Destroyed by a SWAT Team. A Jury Says She's Owed $60,000.

Such victims are often told they have no right to sue.

Reason

New timeline details state’s view that response to Uvalde shooting was an ‘abject failure’

AUSTIN, Texas — Calling the police response to the Uvalde school shooting an “abject failure,” Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw testified to the Texas Senate on Tuesday, corroborating reports indicating that numerous police were inside the school within minutes of the first 911 calls.

Tribune News Service

Wild West : Texas Cops In Two Shootings Less Than 24 Hours Apart

“The San Antonio Police Department today released footage from two separate officer-involved shootings.”

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Armed bandits now control Haiti’s largest courthouse after violent takeover

SWAT and other specialized units of the Haiti National Police were moving in and out of Port-au-Prince’s main courthouse as they tried to figure out how to carry an oversized safe with sensitive documents from some of the country’s most high-profile criminal cases out of the former U.S. government building…

Miami Herald

Uvalde Shows Once Again That Cops Are Just Armed Bureaucrats

What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration.

Reason

US drone-maker aims to protect people here and in Ukraine

Blake Resnick was a 17-year-old growing up in Las Vegas when a gunman firing from a Strip hotel window killed 60 people at an outdoor concert.

Tribune News Service

Man held in attack on doctor, nurses at California hospital

Authorities say a man walked into a Los Angeles emergency ward, stabbed a doctor and two nurses, then holed up for four hours before a SWAT team took him into custody

The Independent UK

SWAT team arrests man after 4 shot, 1 fatally, at West Humboldt Park home

“It’s usually peaceful and quiet here,” Stephanie Franco, 23, said, adding that she has a 3-month-old boy in the home. “This is scary.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Uvalde's ugly truth: Cops won't help you

In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that there is no "'entitlement’ to receive protective services" from police

Salon

Witnesses, Video Suggest Stunning Inaction From Uvalde Cops During School Shooting

Plus: Oklahoma's new strict abortion ban, Biden's new order on federal policing, and more…

Reason

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'We do this to serve humanity' - The UK Sikh charity feeding the homeless across the country

Nishkam SWAT started ten years ago as a youth club in Southall with no more than 20 members. Now with more than 1,000 volunteers, they work seven days a week handing out food to those in need across the world

Los Angeles Times

LAPD SWAT officer caught saying ‘happy hunting’ on bodycam before fatal police shooting

LOS ANGELES — As members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s SWAT team prepared to confront an armed suspect who had holed up in a downtown apartment building earlier this month, one of the highly trained officers offered a comment to the others.

Chicago Sun-Times

Body cam video shows police fatally shooting man in hostage situation near Ford City Mall

“My guy just shot me,” a woman tells a 911 operator in recordings released Tuesday by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. “Please come now. I’ve been shot in my neck. I can’t feel my arms.”

Tribune News Service

Police misconduct is costing Washington taxpayers millions. Is George Floyd's murder one of the reasons?

SEATTLE — Giovonn Joseph-McDade, Tommy Le and Brent Heath likely never met each other in life.

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Chatham SWAT response ends after no gunman found — hours after SWAT responds to Northwestern Memorial for phone threat

The incident in Chatham began Sunday evening when someone told police a person was barricaded with a gun in a building in the 8200 block of South Langley Avenue, police said.

Tribune News Service

Denver police officers’ shooting of armed fugitive was justified, DA says

DENVER — Two Denver police officers were justified in their shooting of Vincent Martinez, 36, the Denver District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.

Reason

Minnesota's Attorney General Says the Cop Who Killed Amir Locke Was Defending Himself. So Was Locke.

That perplexing situation underlines the hazards of police tactics that aim to prevent violence but often have the opposite effect.

Al Jazeera

Police will not be charged in ‘no-knock’ killing of Amir Locke

Minnesota prosecutors found no criminal wrongdoing by SWAT officer who killed 22-year-old Black man in US raid.

The Independent UK

No charges filed in no-knock warrant killing of Amir Locke

Minnesota prosecutors have declined to file charges against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in February

The Independent UK

Two-year-old girl killed by SWAT officer’s bullet after parents’ murder-suicide in Kansas

Kansas authorities say Eli Crawford fired more than 90 rounds at police during a deadly standoff. But it was a police bullet, they say, that killed his two-year-old daughter

Chicago Sun-Times

Policía mata a hombre atrincherado cerca de Ford City Mall

Una mujer de 48 años y un hombre de 78 resultaron gravemente heridos, dijo la policía. Ningún oficial resultó herido.

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