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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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police stories: 258 news summaries

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(Newser) - So much for our post-racial society, writes Carol Rose in the Boston Globe. If we needed any evidence that "racism is alive and well," look no further than the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Harvard professor was charged with disorderly conduct not because police mistook him... More »

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police • Massachusetts • racial profiling • racial tension • racial discrimination • Henry Louis Gates Jr

(Newser) - An Australian man has been hospitalized with burns over 20% of his body after he burst into flames when Tasered by police, reports the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Police say they had no choice but to use the stun gun on the man—a known gas-sniffer and violent offender—when... More »

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Australia • law enforcement • police • Aborigines • Taser • Western Australia

Harvard Scholar Arrested at Mass. Home

'This is what happens to black men in America': Gates to cop

Jul 20, 09 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - A prominent Harvard scholar was arrested last week outside his Cambridge, Mass., home and charged with disorderly conduct after “exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior,” the Harvard Crimson reports. Henry Louis Gates, a renowned professor of African-American studies, was trying to get into the locked house when a neighbor... More »

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African Americans • police • Massachusetts • racism • scholar • arrest • Harvard • Henry Louis Gates Jr • Cambridge, Mass.

(Newser) - A judge has ended eight years of federal oversight imposed on the LAPD after a massive corruption scandal, the Los Angeles Times reports. The judge said the police force had reformed substantially under a “consent decree” that saw tough independent audits and more thorough investigations into abuse allegations. "... More »

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police • corruption • abuse • oversight • LAPD • racial profiling • federal judges • financial disclosure • Los Angeles Police Department

(AP) - Five police officers were shot—two of them critically wounded—in a running gunfight in Jersey City today. Both suspects were killed in the shootout, which began on the street about 5am and ended when SWAT officers fought their way into an apartment where the man and woman had... More »

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New Jersey • police • Jersey City • armed robbery • shooting

Brit Cops Face Probe Over Media Bribes

MPs may investigate whether journos pay police for information

Jul 12, 09 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - British Parliament may investigate police over reports that journalists pay them for dirt on celebrities and criminal suspects, the Guardian reports. Since police opted not to reopen a probe into alleged phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid News of the World, several politicians have been seeking to determine if... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • police • press • bribery • journalist • Britain • News of the World • British media

Restaurant Boots Gay Men After Kiss

Police cite 'right to refuse service'; others blast discrimination

Jul 10, 09 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five gay men were ordered to leave a Texas restaurant after two of them kissed, the El Paso Times reports. One called police to lodge a discrimination complaint—but an officer backed the restaurant guards’ decision because same-sex public kissing was illegal, said one of the men. In fact, a... More »

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gay rights • Texas • police • discrimination • restaurant • El Paso • homosexual

(Newser) - Steve McNair's girlfriend shot and killed him while he slept on the couch before turning the gun on herself, the Tennessean reports. Sahel Kazemi, 20, believed McNair was seeing yet another woman and was worried about paying her rent and car loans, say police. “We do believe there... More »

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NFL • police • murder-suicide • football • Tennessee • Steve McNair • Nashville • Sahel Kazemi

 As Riots Quiet, 
 China Vows to 
 Execute Killers 

Anyone found guilty of murder will be executed, says party head

Jul 8, 09 12:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - After thousands of troops were deployed to quell ethnic unrest in the Chinese city of Urumqi, “the situation is under control,” said officials—who vowed to execute anyone behind the riot's 156 deaths. Most of those charged with murder so far have been students, said the city’s... More »

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China • police • riots • ethnic conflict • Xinjiang • Uighurs • civil unrest • paramilitary • Urumqi

(Newser) - French police rescued a vacationing Scottish girl who was snatched by an Internet stalker, reports the Daily Mail. The girl, 12, was whisked to the Marseille airport from a villa where she was vacationing with her parents by a 41-year-old Belgian man she had encountered earlier on the Internet. She... More »

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Internet • police • France • kidnapping • stalker • abduction • Marseille • child abduction • Cops

(Newser) - Michael Jackson's family held a quiet vigil beside his casket last night before the singer is interred today, reports the Times of London. Jackson's sister La Toya, brother Randy and daughter Paris were spotted at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park soon after Jackson's casket was transported there for a private... More »

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California • police • Los Angeles • death • funeral • Michael Jackson • Neverland • memorial service • cemetery • Neverland Ranch • La Toya Jackson

(Newser) - North Carolina police have shot and killed a man who may have been the shooter responsible for five deaths in a nearby South Carolina town, the Gaffney Ledger reports. Members of the 100-member task force combing through Cherokee County, SC, visited the crime scene in neighboring Gaston County, NC.... More »

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police • South Carolina • robbery • North Carolina • serial killers • shooting • Gaffney • firefight

(Newser) - Marion Barry’s lawyer says the woman he was arrested for stalking on Saturday is his ex-girlfriend, and that the two had been together earlier that day, the Washington Post reports. Police say they took Barry into custody after a woman said he was “bothering her”; ex Donna... More »

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Washington DC • police • arrest • city council • stalking • Marion Barry • ex-girlfriends

(Newser) - French cops have busted 26 people linked to the biggest jewelry heist ever in France, reports the Guardian. Police swooped in after learning that foreign buyers were about to contact the team to purchase gems lifted late last year in a brazen daylight armed robbery in Paris. The suspects,... More »

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police • France • robbery • Paris • armed robbery • Harry Winston • jewel heist

(Newser) - Swedes got a scare this weekend after an artist wrapped bunches of carrots with black tape to make them look a bit like dynamite, attached clocks and wires and placed them around the southern city of Orebo. Police received several concerned calls from the public about the "Bunny Project:... More »

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rabbits • police • art • Sweden • artist • bunker busting bombs • carrots • Bugs Bunny

(Newser) - Amanda Knox returned to the stand for the second day today with a familiar theme: Italian police abused her—verbally and sometimes physically—so much that she became confused about events the night Meredith Kercher was killed. She said police threatened her with serious jail time if she didn’t... More »

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police • Italy • text message • murder trial • Perugia • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox • Raffaele Sollecito • Patrick Lumumba

(Newser) - Time counts down the top 10 weirdest non-emergency 911 calls. Among the craziest:
  • A cop who stole pot from a drug bust and made brownies. After getting stoned, he called 911 in a panic. "I think we're dead," he told the operator. "Time is going by
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McDonald's • police • 911 call • marijuana • Time magazine • Burger King

(Newser) - Thieves stole a sketchbook containing 33 Pablo Picasso drawings from the Picasso Museum in Paris, the Daily Mail reports. The security system was somehow disabled and there was no sign of forced entry. The theft occurred sometime last night or early today and resembles the 2007 robbery of the home... More »

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organized crime • police • France • robbery • Paris • Pablo Picasso • art heist • Picasso Museum

 25 Mexican 
 Cops Busted 
 for Drug Ties 

Calderon launches troops to root out police corruption

Jun 2, 09 2:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mexican soldiers and federal agents have arrested at least 25 police officers accused of links to drug trafficking operations, reports AP. The busts are part of an ongoing effort to stem the tide of drug violence. President Felipe Calderon has committed over 40,000 troops to combat the cartels. Calderon... More »

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Mexico • police • drug trafficking • Mexican drug war • Mexican army • Felipe Calderón

(Newser) - Foul-mouthed songbird Susan Boyle not only had a few choice words about a judge on Britain's Got Talent, she also blew up at fans yesterday and lit into a British bobby who subsequently tried to calm her down, reports the Sun. London cops intervened when Boyle screamed at comments by... More »

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entertainment • police • Scotland • curse • singing • obscenity • Britain • Susan Boyle • Britain's Got Talent

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