Police commissioner : Turning backs on mayor inappropriate
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and MIKE BALSAMO New York City’s police commissioner says it was “very inappropriate” for officers to turn their backs on the mayor in a sign of disrespect…
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Battered NY mayor calls for temporary protest halt
By JONATHAN LEMIRE As the New York Police Department mourns two of its own, Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded for a pause in protests and rancor amid a widening rift…
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…
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…
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…
Coroner: Boy, 6, dies after car crashes into crowd
A 6-year-old boy whose mother and two other women were killed when a motorist slammed into a crowd outside a California church has also died from his injuries, authorities said…
Pakistan: 77 militants killed after school massacre
By MUNIR AHMED Pakistani warplanes and ground forces killed at least 77 militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, days after Taliban fighters killed…
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…