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Attorneys liken Tyre Nichols' arrest to Rodney King beating
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Attorneys liken Tyre Nichols' arrest to Rodney King beating

  • By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press
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Attorneys for the family of a Black motorist who died after a violent encounter with Memphis police say officers beat Tyre Nichols for three minutes in a “savage” encounter reminiscent of the infamous 1991 police beating of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King. Attorney Ben Crump said Monday that police body camera video viewed by the family showed that Nichols was shocked, pepper-sprayed and restrained after the 29-year-old FedEx worker and father was pulled over Jan. 7. Nichols’ family agreed with investigators’ request to wait a week or two before the video is made public. Nichols’ stepfather says he ran “because he was scared for his life.” The police department fired five officers who were involved. All five are Black.

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64 police officers fatally shot while on the job in 2022

  • By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

Far fewer U.S. police officers died while on the job in 2022 than a year earlier, due mostly to a drop in COVID-19 deaths. But the number killed by gunfire remained relatively high. That's according to a report from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Sixty-four of the 226 officers who died in the line of duty last year were fatally shot. That matched the death-by-gunfire tally from 2021. A representative from the organization says the shooting death figures from both years reflect an increase in the average annual fatality toll over the past decade and an indication of a disturbing trend. The country has seen an overall rise in violent crime in recent years.

Leaders of US, Canada, Mexico show unity despite friction
National News

Leaders of US, Canada, Mexico show unity despite friction

  • By COLLEEN LONG and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press
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President Joe Biden,  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are seeking to downplay their frustrations with one another on migration and trade as they meet for the North American Leaders Summit. The leaders are offering a unified front despite tensions that have put a strain on their relationships even as Biden has made repairing alliances a cornerstone of his foreign policy agenda. As they closed Tuesday's summit in Mexico City with a joint new conference, the leaders offered an optimistic outlook. Biden said, “We’re true partners the three of us,” and “We share a common vision for the future, grounded on common values.”

German police clear blockades at village condemned for mine
Science

German police clear blockades at village condemned for mine

  • By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press
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Several hundred climate activists have tried to prevent heavy machinery from reaching an abandoned village in Germany that’s due to be cleared for the expansion of a coal mine. Their efforts on Tuesday came even as police pushed back protesters and removed road blocks ahead of a possible clearance this week. The standoff between police and protesters followed a regional court’s decision Monday rejecting a last-ditch attempt by the activists to stay in the hamlet of Luetzerath, west of Cologne, which has become a battleground between the government and environmentalists. About 300 people refused to heed the ruling, however, arguing that civil disobedience at the site was justified in the face of the climate crisis.

Authorities probe who was behind uprising in Brazil capital
World

Authorities probe who was behind uprising in Brazil capital

  • By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press
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Brazilian authorities say they are looking into who may have been behind the shocking uprising that sent protesters storming into the nation’s halls of power in a riot that had striking similarities to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In an unprecedented display for Latin America’s largest nation, thousands of supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro swarmed into Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace on Sunday. Many of them said they wanted the Brazilian army to restore the far-right Bolsonaro to power and oust the newly inaugurated leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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