A Milwaukee jury on Wednesday acquitted a former police officer in the on-duty shooting of a black man last year that ignited riots on the city’s north side. Jurors found that Dominique Heaggan-Brown, who is also black, was not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide when he shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith after a brief foot chase […]
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California Elementary School Shooting Ends In Murder-Suicide
A lovers’ quarrel turned deadly when a man opened fire in a San Bernardino, Calif., classroom, killing the female instructor and injuring two students before turning the gun on himself, police and school officials said. The gunman, who checked into North Park Elementary School as a visitor just before 10:30 a.m. PST, fired multiple rounds […]
Black Body Count Rises as Chicago Police Step Back
‘The streets are gone,” Dean Angelo, president of the Chicago police union, told me last month. The night before, Aug. 14, a Chicago police officer’s son had been killed in a shooting while sitting on his family’s porch, one of 92 people killed in Chicago during the worst month for homicides in the Windy City […]