Tag: police

New Legal Restrictions Needed on Police Use of Facial Recognition: Privacy Watchdogs

Canada’s privacy commissioners say it should be illegal for police to use facial recognition technology to monitor people involved in peaceful protest. In a joint statement today, federal, provincial and territorial privacy watchdogs also call for a prohibition on any police deployment of the tool that could result in mass surveillance. They say facial recognition…


Man With Knife Confronts London Police, Is Arrested

LONDON—British police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he confronted military police in central London with a knife. The Metropolitan Police force says no one was injured in the Monday morning incident, which is not being treated as terrorism. Police say a man armed with a knife confronted…


Police Hunt for Pittsburgh Party Shooters Who Killed 2, Injured Several

Police were searching for the shooters who opened fire at a house party in the East Allegheny neighborhood of Pittsburgh that left two young people dead in the early hours of Sunday. The two victims were both under 18 while eight more sustained gunshot wounds, police said, revising an earlier tally. An additional five were…


Shanghai Residents Clash With Police Over Neighborhood Quarantine Centers Under Construction

Footage that widely circulated on social media shows residents entered a neighborhood clash with police in Shanghai due to local authorities’ decision to acquire some of their community’s apartment buildings as quarantine centers. According to the footage, dwellers in the Zhangjiang Nashi neighborhood compound rallied in protest of the local government’s eviction order that forced…


Palestinians Clash With Israeli Police at Jerusalem Holy Site, 152 Injured, Hundreds Arrested

Palestinians and Israeli police clashed at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands gathered for prayers during the Islamic month of Ramadan. Medics said more than 150 Palestinians were wounded. In a statement, Israeli police said hundreds of Palestinians hurled firecrackers and stones at their forces and toward the nearby Jewish prayer area…


Capital City Defrauded out of More Than Half a Million Dollars, Police Investigating

Police are investigating an illegal transaction that saw Canada’s capital city defrauded out of more than half a million dollars. A memo to the city’s council shows staff found an irregularity on April 11 related to a $558,000 payment from the city to a partner agency. Staff later confirmed the city was a victim of…


Fallen Officer’s Wife Prays at Grave for Miracle, Meets This Special Man Weeks Later

April Katherman-Redgrave and her late husband, Mike, were teenagers when they first met. They later married and had two sons. Their small family was just perfect before the tragedy struck. When Mike, a San Jose police officer, was killed on duty in a motorcycle accident, April was utterly lost and heartbroken. Visiting the cemetery months after…


LIVE: NYC Officials Give Update on Brooklyn Subway Shooting

New York officials give update after multiple people were shot in a Brooklyn subway station. …


Police: Man Fatally Shot by Officers After Killing Woman

TULSA, Okla.—Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, fatally shot a naked man after he shot and killed a woman outside an apartment complex, authorities said Tuesday. Officers investigating reports Monday night of a naked man firing a rifle in the area found Dwayne Jackson with a rifle outside the complex, according to Capt. Richard Meulenberg. Meulenberg said…


Police Make Arrest in Deadly Iowa Nightclub Shooting

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—Police have made an arrest in a shooting during a birthday party inside a crowded Iowa nightclub that left two people dead and 10 others injured. Timothy Ladell Rush, 32, was arrested Monday and charged with second-degree murder, willful injury, and three weapons-related felonies, police said in a statement Monday night. Online court…