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Jul
09
2023
By The African Mirror
Hundreds defy Paris protest ban a week after riots

Hundreds defy Paris protest ban a week after riots

WORLD
HUNDREDS of protesters defied a ban to march in central Paris against police violence, a week after riots sparked by the killing of a teenager in a Parisian suburb. Police dispersed the crowd from Paris's huge Place de la Republique, sending several hundred people towards the wide Boulevard Magenta, where they were seen marching peacefully. Two people were arrested, Paris police said after the demonstration. The Paris police department said in a decision published on its website that it had banned the planned demonstration, citing a "context of tensions". "We still enjoy freedom of expression in France, but freedom of assembly,…
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Jan
27
2023
By The African Mirror
Immigrant farm worker charged with 7 murders in northern California shooting

Immigrant farm worker charged with 7 murders in northern California shooting

WORLD
JORGE GARCIA and STEVE GORMAN A 66-year-old immigrant farm worker was formally charged with premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of seven co-workers near San Francisco, the second of two gun rampages in California in recent days in which 18 people were killed. Chunli Zhao, a Chinese citizen and the lone suspect in Monday's massacre at two mushroom farms in the seaside town of Half Moon Bay, was formally presented with seven counts of murder and a single count of attempted murder during his first court appearance in nearby Redwood City. Zhao, wearing red-coloured jail garb and enclosed behind a…
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Jan
21
2023
By The African Mirror
Alec Baldwin to be charged with involuntary manslaughter over ‘Rust’ shooting

Alec Baldwin to be charged with involuntary manslaughter over ‘Rust’ shooting

WORLD
ANDREW HAY and BRENDAN O'BRIEN ACTOR Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter, a felony punishable by prison time, in the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins while filming the movie "Rust" in New Mexico, a state prosecutor said on Thursday. District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, the top prosecutor for Santa Fe, said Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armourer for the western, would also be charged with involuntary manslaughter. All charges would be filed by the end of this month, he added. Hutchins' family welcomed the announcement, while Baldwin attorney Luke Nikas said, "this decision distorts Halyna Hutchins' tragic death and…
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Dec
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Jury selection begins in trial of ex-Minnesota officer who shot Daunte Wright

Jury selection begins in trial of ex-Minnesota officer who shot Daunte Wright

WORLD
NATHAN LAYNE JURY selection began on Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of a white former Minnesota police officer charged in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a Black man whose April death sparked protests in a state already on edge over George Floyd's killing. Kimberly Potter, who was a police officer in the city of Brooklyn Center just north of Minneapolis, has pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree manslaughter charges. Her lawyers have said Potter, 49, mistakenly used her handgun instead of her stun gun in the death of Wright, a 20-year-old shot during a traffic stop. Her lawyers…
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Apr
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Lawyers say Andrew Brown Jr. hit with ‘kill shot’ to head

Lawyers say Andrew Brown Jr. hit with ‘kill shot’ to head

WORLD
LAWYERS for the family of a Black man killed by sheriff's deputies in North Carolina during an attempted arrest said yesterday that an independent autopsy showed he died from a 'kill shot' to his head as he tried to drive away. Andrew Brown Jr., 42, was struck with multiple bullets in the arm before the fatal shot to his head, lawyers for the family told a news conference held to release the findings of an independent autopsy. "It was a kill shot to the back of the head," said Ben Crump, one of the attorneys. The fatal shooting of Brown…
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Apr
12
2021
By The African Mirror
Protests after police fatally shoot Black man in Minneapolis

Protests after police fatally shoot Black man in Minneapolis

WORLD
NICHOLAS PFOSI and JONATHAN ALLEN PROTESTS erupted against police when an officer fatally shot a young Black man after stopping his vehicle for a traffic violation about 16 km from where George Floyd was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis last May. As angry crowds swelled into the hundreds outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department building on Sunday night, officers in riot gear fired rubber bullets and lobbed flash bangs at protesters and let off clouds of chemical irritants. The man killed by police was identified by relatives and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as Daunte Wright, 20. Walz said in…
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Dec
24
2020
By The African Mirror
Ohio officer relieved of duty after second fatal police shooting of Black man

Ohio officer relieved of duty after second fatal police shooting of Black man

WORLD
POLICE in Columbus, Ohio, in the US, have relieved an officer of duty after fatally shooting an unarmed Black man, the city's second law enforcement shooting death of a Black man in the past month. The latest incident unfolded in the early hours of Tuesday after officers responded to a non-emergency complaint about a man turning a car on and off for an extended period, Columbus police said in a statement. Shortly after the officers arrived, a man who had been inside a garage approached them on foot with his left hand holding a cell phone and his right hand…
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