NY police union leader well known for his bite
By COLLEEN LONG Patrick Lynch was hollering. Standing outside a Brooklyn hospital after the bodies of two slain police officers were taken away, the head of the nation’s largest police…
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Ex-officer not charged in fatal Milwaukee shooting
By TODD RICHMOND A white Milwaukee police officer who was fired after he fatally shot a mentally ill black man in April won’t face criminal charges, the county’s top prosecutor…
Ariz. sheriff aims to halt Obama immigration order
By PETE YOST A gadfly attorney and an Arizona county sheriff want to halt President Barack Obama’s immigration order in the first courtroom battle over an initiative designed to spare…
Cops’ killer angry at chokehold death
By COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ A gunman who announced online that he was planning to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed…
Tsarnaev lawyer says he plans to seek trial delay
By DENISE LAVOIE Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev returned to court Thursday for the first time since he was arraigned in July 2013, and his lawyer said the defense…
Chokehold case stirs debate on special prosecutors
By JENNIFER PELTZ After a police officer wasn’t indicted in a fatal chokehold caught on video, some officials are reviving calls to entrust such cases to special prosecutors, rather than…
US Justice Department report released Cleveland police poorly trained, reckless
By MARK GILLISPIE Justice Department report released Thursday spared no one in the Cleveland police chain of command amid findings of excessive use of force and civil rights violations.It was…
Police cases converge to stir national debate
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG From the White House to the streets of some of America’s biggest cities, the New York chokehold case converged with the Ferguson shooting and…