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☆ Las Vegas shooting: A dad called 911 about shots fired at his home. Then a police officer shot and killed him
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Jeff Winter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A 43-year-old father was shot and killed in his home by a Las Vegas police officer last week, authorities said, after he called 911 for help. Early in the morning of November 12, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police received multiple calls about a shooting on Wine River Drive. CNN has reached out to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police for more information about any prior incidents at Durham’s home. Durham’s shooting remains under investigation by the police department’s critical incident review team. Bookman is on administrative leave pending the results of the internal investigation, CNN affiliate KTNV reported.

Persons: Brandon Durham, Dori Koren, Alexander Bookman, Bookman, Alejandra Boudreaux, Koren, “, Boudreaux, Durham, ” Lee Merritt, Steven Wolfson Organizations: CNN, Las, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, Police, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, KTNV Locations: Brandon, Durham, Clark County, New York , Mississippi, Minnesota, Colorado , California

TOKYO — An American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo. Hayes, a U.S. citizen, had “carved alphabet letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine” in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo on Tuesday, police said. The Japan Times reported that the letters were carved into a wooden pillar of a traditional entrance, known as a torii gate, at the Meiji Shrine. Torii gates are iconic structures that mark the boundary between the everyday and the sacred at Shinto shrines across Japan. Last year, a tourist was arrested after being caught on video defacing the wall of the colosseum in Rome by carving a love note into it.

Persons: Steve Lee Hayes, Hayes, It's, Emperor Meiji, Shoken Organizations: Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, NBC News, The Japan Times, Independent Locations: TOKYO, An American, Japan, Tokyo, U.S, Shibuya, Meiji, Rome, Chichen Itza, Mexico

☆ A history professor who accurately predicted 9 of the last 11 elections said he got death threats after getting his 2024 race bet wrong
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Lichtman, who has accurately predicted nine elections to date, called a Harris win in September. He said he's received death threats and that there were two break-in attempts on his home. AdvertisementAllan Lichtman, the history professor who correctly predicted nine of the last 11 presidential elections, said he's received death threats after wrongly predicting 2024's results. Lichtman predicted a win for Vice President Kamala Harris over her opponent, former President Donald Trump, in September. "We've faced death threats, doxxing, swatting and intimidation at our doorstep.

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☆ Vegas Justice League nonprofit has helped solve over 100 cold murder cases
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-05 | by ( Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But a suspect was not identified until 2021 with the assistance of the Las Vegas-based nonprofit Vegas Justice League. Crowdfunded crime solvingFounded in 2020 by entrepreneur Justin Woo, the Vegas Justice League – and his nationwide initiative Project Justice – has helped solve 41 cold cases across the country, including nine murders in Las Vegas. Putting the puzzle togetherVegas Justice League has also funded the ongoing DNA testing for at least 82 other ongoing cases. Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft, alongside the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, honored the Vegas Justice League with a key to the Las Vegas Strip for their efforts in solving cold murder cases. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police DepartmentThe idea for Vegas Justice League started when Woo learned about Othram and saw that they were crowdfunding for cases.

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The FBI identified Joseph Adams in this Jan. 6 bodycam footage. The FBI identified this man, circled in yellow, as Robert Piccirillo. Hundreds of other Jan. 6 rioters have been identified by the FBI and online sleuths investigating the Capitol attack, but have not been arrested. Trump promises pardons if re-electedThe fate of the Jan. 6 investigation hinges on the results of Tuesday’s election. Trump has repeatedly said he would “absolutely” pardon Jan. 6 rioters and denounced the Justice Department’s investigation.

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"This is an area that we visit almost every weekend," said West, who was not with Lascarro at the time of the incident. As many as 10 to 15 suspects, both men and women, were involved in the assault, according to the police report. Police are investigating the case as a hate crime, classifying the offense as a simple assault with an anti-gay bias motivation, according to the police report. Lascarro, who is originally from Colombia, moved to Washington, D.C., last year and became a permanent resident of the U.S. this year. He said he is having a hard time recounting the incident to his family, with whom he struggled to come out as gay.

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Officer Daniel Hodges, of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department, who was on duty both for Trump’s Jan. 6 event and Harris’ rally, said Tuesday was a very different experience. He's since become an outspoken opponent of Trump's, testifying before the Jan. 6 committee and campaigning for Harris. He said he was glad that Harris chose to host a rally at the same spot where Trump told his supporters to march to the Capitol. While Hodges spent Jan. 6 fighting a pro-Trump mob in the lower west tunnel, he didn't see much action in the aftermath of Harris' speech. He incited the crowd to riot while my brother and his fellow officers put their lives at risk,” Sicknick told the crowd.

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☆ Report details St. Louis high school gunman's struggle with mental health before 2022 shooting
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-29 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Ava Kelley | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

St. Louis police on Monday released a detailed report about a 2022 school shooting that left a student and teacher dead, publicly revealing for the first time the gunman’s struggle with his mental health and hospitalizations over suicide attempts. The 456-page document also outlines concerns raised by Orlando Harris’ family and their attempts to get help. Students stand in a parking lot near the Central Visual & Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, on Oct. 24, 2022. Following the shooting, agents went to the storage unit and found it completely empty. During one session, Harris allegedly talked about shooting people at his old high school, the report says.

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Caleb Berry, masked, at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It was wrong.”Mehta sentenced Berry to three years probation, the sentence requested by federal prosecutors due to his extensive cooperation. He’s also promised to pardon an undefined number of Jan. 6 rioters, even as new arrests continue to roll in. "Jeremy Michael Miller, the FBI said, fought with police officers on the west side of the Capitol on Jan. 6. Screenshot of body worn camera footage showing Reynold Voisine (yellow square) throwing a rod at police officers.

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A 17-year-old chess grandmaster was charged with assault and expelled from a championship tournament after hitting a woman when he lost a match in St. Louis last week, officials said. Chess Championship match at the Saint Louis Chess Club last Wednesday, the club said in a statement on X. A video released by the Saint Louis Chess Club shows Yoo crumpling his scoresheet following the loss to now-four-time U.S. chess champion Fabiano Caruana. He has since been banned from the Saint Louis Chess Club. And best of luck to the other players and best wishes to the St. Louis Chess Club."

Persons: Louis, Christopher Yoo, Yoo crumpling, Fabiano Caruana, Yoo, Caruana, Christopher, Yoo's, Abhimanyu Mishra Organizations: U.S, Saint Louis Chess Club, Juvenile, Louis Metropolitan Police Department, NBC, U.S ., U.S . Chess Federation, Louis Chess, Facebook, Junior Locations: St, Louis, American

WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol and assaulted law enforcement officers now says she was "duped" by the former president's lies about the 2020 election. One of the officers who Bell, a 62-year-old Trump supporter, encountered was the late Jeffrey Smith. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Moloney admitted that he assaulted officers with “Black Flag Wasp, Hornet, & Yellow Jacket Killer” spray and that he assaulted two people he thought were with the media.

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Rock guitarist Jake E. Lee was struck multiple times early Thursday in a Las Vegas street shooting, his management said in a statement. Officers responded to the shooting around 2:45 a.m. and found Lee with gunshot wounds, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement. His management said Lee is "fully conscious and doing well" in an intensive care unit and is expected to fully recover. Lee's management said Las Vegas authorities believe the street shooting was "completely random" and took place when Lee was walking his dog early Thursday. Lee spent time performing alongside Ozzy Osbourne in the 80s and then performed with the heavy-metal group Badlands.

Persons: Jake E, Lee, Ozzy Osbourne Organizations: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Las, Dragon Locations: Las, Las Vegas

☆ A Nevada official was found guilty of using $70K meant for a statue of a slain police officer for plastic surgery, her daughter's wedding, and rent
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A jury found Nevada official Michele Fiore guilty of misusing $70,000 meant for a memorial. The statue was to honor a Las Vegas police officer killed in the line of duty. Prosecutors said funds were spent on personal expenses like rent, plastic surgery, and a wedding. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer, along with fellow officer Igor Soldo, was shot and killed "execution-style" while eating lunch in June 2014, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. An exhibit list showed that FBI agents also seized invoice documents for a Las Vegas plastic surgery practice.

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Trump went on to repeat false claims that there was "so much proof" that he won the election. And he dodged when asked about whether he had any regrets about his actions on Jan. 6. Other Jan. 6 defendants continue to maintain their belief in Trump's election lies. Trump's inability to acknowledge the reality of his 2020 election loss, Harris said, raises questions about Trump's "temperament" and his "ability to not be confused about fact," calling it "deeply troubling." Trump, who has called Jan. 6 defendants "hostages" and "unbelievable patriots" and has said he'll pardon "a large portion" of Jan. 6 defendants, said Tuesday that Capitol riot defendants had been "treated so badly."

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☆ Congress will get increased federal security on Jan. 6 for first election certification since US Capitol attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —When members of Congress meet on Capitol Hill to certify the electoral votes in the 2024 presidential election, the process, on the anniversary of the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack, will have the full weight of the federal government behind its security. The certification process on January 6, 2025, was designated as a national special security event by the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in the last week following a request from Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, according to the US Secret Service. The designation is reserved for significant events – including the Super Bowl, presidential inaugurations and this summer’s NATO summit – where security is required on a mass scale. The source told CNN that agencies are still in the early stages of determining the security measures that will be in place for the Electoral College certification. “National Special Security Events are events of the highest national significance,” Eric Ranaghan, the special agent in charge of the USSS Dignitary Protective Division, said in a statement announcing the designation.

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☆ ICE Training Barely Covers De-Escalation, Promotes Agents Use of Force
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Lila Hassan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

But the Llanez family never learned whether Gonzalez had followed ICE training protocols, because the way ICE agents are trained has been largely hidden from the public. For years, civil-rights groups have sought to obtain, with limited success, complete ICE training documents to understand how that training affects use of force by agents in the field. And they also appear to place an emphasis on teaching ICE agents how to justify the use of force. Among the most important lessons ICE agents receive is when and how to use deadly force. One of the questions asks which steps an officer must take before initiating deadly force; the answer is "None, deadly force can be initiated immediately."

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☆ Illegal Eviction Complaints Rise As Police Fail to Enforce
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Cecilia Reyes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +44 min

The nature of illegal lockouts means they are hard to track directly. One of the responding officers calls a sergeant over, who says there's nothing else they can do. While only 14% of lockout calls led to a police report, 86% of calls about shoplifting did. As they walk over, one of the officers tells the other to look up "illegal lockout" on his phone. A 2006 bill that would have defined illegal lockouts for all Illinois residents was defeated.

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☆ Suspected carjacker shot outside home of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during a service for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 18, 2023. Marshal tasked with protecting Supreme Court justices' homes shot an alleged armed carjacker near the Washington residence of Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor last week, authorities said Tuesday. The suspect, 18-year-old Kentrell Flowers of Southeast D.C., allegedly pulled a handgun on the marshal, who was in a parked car in the Northwest section of the city around 1:15 a.m. The marshal drew his own gun and "fired several shots at the suspect," the MPD said. Another marshal in a separate vehicle also fired at Flowers, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Persons: Sonia Sotomayor, Sandra Day O'Connor, Flowers Organizations: Washington , D.C, U.S, Southeast D.C, Metropolitan Police Department, Police Locations: Washington ,, Washington, Southeast

A U.S. marshal on a Supreme Court security detail shot and wounded an armed man who tried to carjack him early Friday near Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s home in northwest Washington, according to court documents. The marshal was sitting in an unmarked federal vehicle when a silver Toyota minivan pulled over next to him, according to court documents. Flowers through the window four times, hitting him in the mouth, according to the court documents. A second U.S. marshal from another vehicle also responded and fired his weapon, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Flowers was charged with armed carjacking, carrying a pistol without a license, and possession of a large-capacity ammunition-feeding device.

Persons: Sonia Sotomayor’s, Flowers Organizations: Supreme, Toyota, Metropolitan Police Department Locations: U.S, Washington

☆ Las Vegas monolith: A ‘mysterious’ pillar appears on hiking trail in Nevada
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Christy Choi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Another “mysterious” monolith has been spotted. This time, on a Las Vegas hiking trail in Nevada, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD). “How did it get up there?”The monolith was found over the weekend near Gass Peak north of Las Vegas, it added. The pillar is reminiscent to ones popping up all over the world shortly after a 10-feet silver monolith was discovered in late 2020 by a helicopter crew flying over an Utah desert. As for the one found on the Las Vegas hiking trail, social media users claimed the monolith isn’t actually new.

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☆ Mother of Jan. 6 officer Michael Fanone swatted after he called Trump 'authoritarian'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Ryan J. Reilly | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former Washington DC police officer Michael Fanone finishes giving a speech denouncing political violence during a news conference put on by Courage for America featuring veterans, politicians on the west side of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2023. Hours later, Fanone's mother was "swatted" at her home in Virginia. That night, Fanone told NBC News, his mother opened the door to law enforcement while in her nightgown, "mortified" to find SWAT team officers at her home. Pro-Trump protesters clash with D.C. police officer Michael Fanone during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. Shannon Stapleton | ReutersWashington Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone testifies during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 27, 2021.

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CNN —After months of either ignoring or poking fun at former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the Biden campaign on Tuesday decided for the first time to stage a news conference about Trump’s record outside the courthouse where closing arguments were taking place. In their view, Trump’s trial would speak for itself, reintroducing the former president and the chaos that surrounds him to voters who may have tuned him out. “The entire news media is camped out here, day in and day out,” campaign communications director Michael Tyler said, explaining the choice to address reporters outside the lower Manhattan courthouse. Biden campaign officials are still grappling with the reality, this person said, that a substantial part of the population still doesn’t see that the choice on Election Day will be between Biden and Trump. “We knew Trump was out of control when he was president,” De Niro says over a shot of Trump behind the Resolute Desk.

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☆ Biden reelection campaign enlists January 6 police officers to campaign in key swing states
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Kayla Tausche | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Washington CNN —The Biden reelection campaign has enlisted three police officers – all of whom were working at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, when rioters overtook the building – to stump for Biden across battleground states in the coming weeks, the campaign told CNN. Aquilino Gonell, Officer Harry Dunn and Officer Danny Hodges plan to tell voters across key swing states that former President Donald Trump poses a threat to democracy and to their fundamental rights as Americans. Dunn and Gonell sustained injuries during the attack on the Capitol and have since retired from the Capitol Police. “We were the victims, we lived through it,” Dunn, who mounted an unsuccessful bid for Congress, told CNN in an interview. In a fundraising email to Biden supporters last week, Gonell described sustaining career-ending injuries and being “trampled in a tunnel” – and noting he would continue fighting for America after being in uniform.

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☆ Washington, DC: 2 suspects arrested in shooting of off-duty police officer
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Christina Zdanowicz | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —An off-duty police officer was shot at and injured Monday while en route to work in Washington, DC, and two suspects have been taken into custody, the police chief said. The police officer is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said in a news conference Monday afternoon. The officer was shot in the area of 7th Street and Oneida Place in Northwest DC, police said, a residential, tree-lined street near a church. Police spokesman Paris Lewbel initially told CNN a Metropolitan Police Department officer had been shot in Washington, DC. It didn’t necessarily have to be a Metropolitan Police Department officer,” Smith said.

Persons: Pamela Smith, ” Smith, “, ”, Paris Lewbel Organizations: CNN, Metropolitan Police Department, Oneida, Northwest DC, Police Locations: Washington ,, Northwest, Maryland, Washington , DC, Landover , Maryland

Washington CNN —The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment on George Washington University’s campus early Wednesday and arrested 30 protesters there and three others in a separate altercation, Metro Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said. Yet after police cleared the encampment, House Oversight Chair James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, announced the hearing was canceled and took credit for spurring action. GW’s encampment was set up about two weeks ago in the University Yard, a grassy square on campus surrounded by a food hall and university buildings. Officers deployed pepper spray three timesPeople listen as activists and students protest near an encampment at University Yard, George Washington University on April 28, in Washington, DC. Ahmed El Masry, a demonstrator at the GW encampment, said he left the encampment at about 2 a.m. but rushed back about two hours later when he heard police were working to clear the space.

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