As anti-China sentiment intensified in South Korea, a video was shared in posts that falsely claimed it showed a Chinese public security officer directing traffic and pedestrians in Seoul. Footage of the purported officer, however, circulated in the days after Halloween celebrations in posts calling him a cosplayer. South Korean police told AFP they received…
Former Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson was arrested in June last year after an altercation at the Red Martini club in Atlanta. Most of the charges have now been dismissed. During the interaction with police, Peterson was accused of hitting a police officer and obstructing law enforcement, receiving two obstruction charges and a charge…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The murder trial of an Ohio police officer continues Thursday in the 2023 shooting death of a pregnant Black mother he and another officer confronted about an accusation of shoplifting. Connor Grubb is charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter and felonious assault in the death of Ta’Kiya Young, 21, and the unborn…
LONDON — U.K. police on Monday charged a 32-year-old man with attempted murder in a mass stabbing attack on a train that wounded 11 people, and revealed that he may have stabbed two other people in the 24 hours before the attack. British Transport Police said Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one…
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The three detectives killed this week in one of Pennsylvania’s deadliest days for police this century are men who will be missed for their humility, hard work and willingness to help others, say those who knew them. The detectives — Mark Baker, Cody Becker and Isaiah Emenheiser — were shot to…
A fugitive father who had been hiding with his three children in the dense New Zealand wilderness was shot dead in an armed confrontation with police, and his three children are in the custody of police, ending a near four-year search for the family. Thomas Phillips and his children – believed to be ages 9,…
An off-duty Hong Kong auxiliary police officer has been suspended from duty after he was arrested for allegedly performing an indecent act while driving a taxi in Causeway Bay. The man, 57, was transporting a female passenger when she reportedly noticed his alleged indecent act as the taxi drove along the Canal Road flyover. When…
A senior Hong Kong police officer has been sentenced to 240 hours of community service and had his driving licence suspended for six months for operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and biting a colleague who tried to stop him. A District Court judge said on Tuesday that the superintendent’s career had been…
A district attorney said Wednesday that an Alabama police officer who fatally shot a teenager in the back was justified in his use of deadly force because the youth grabbed a gun after struggling with the officer. But the teen’s family questioned that conclusion and said they have many unanswered questions about what had happened….
The death of an unarmed 52-year-old man who died after an Alabama police officer kneeled on his neck was ruled a homicide by a county coroner, according to an official autopsy reviewed by The Associated Press. The finding led lawyers representing Phillip Reeder’s family on Monday to compare his death to that of George Floyd…