NEW ORLEANS - The city’s embattled police department will have another internal investigation to face after a swarm of converging officers gunned down a man brandishing a knife.
A police spokesman said the officers who fired on the man Monday will be reassigned pending the outcome of the probe, but he defended their response, saying at least one officer’s life was in danger just prior to the barrage of gunfire.
"You have a subject who’s lunging at them with a knife... swinging wildly (...)
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New Orleans Police have "No Choice", Shoot to Kill Man with Knife
27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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On the abuse of Palestinians by Israeli security forces
24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentOn apathy By Haaretz Editorial
In today’s Haaretz Magazine, Gideon Levy tells the story of Mahmoud Shawara, a 43-year-old father of nine, who left for work on his donkey one day from his house in the village of Nuaman, near Bethlehem, was arrested by border policemen, and, after he refused to accompany the soldiers without his donkey, was tied to the donkey. The frightened donkey then galloped toward the village; Shawara sustained serious injuries all over his body, and ultimately (...) -
Who’s Starting Riots? Who Benefits: New Powers for Police to Crack Down on Sydney rioters
14 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentPolice in Sydney will be given tough new powers to crack down on rioters who have rampaged through the city’s southern beachside suburbs for two nights, New South Wales state leader Morris Iemma announced Tuesday. ’’New South Wales parliament will be recalled for a special emergency sitting on Thursday morning to provide police with extra powers to deal with criminals and thugs who are causing disturbances across our city,’’ Iemma said. He was talking after a second night of race riots (...)
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Passengers did not hear "Bomb" before Air Marshalls shot man on Airplane
10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsMIAMI (AP) - The passenger shot dead by air marshals in Miami had been agitated before boarding the plane and was singing Go Down Moses as his wife tried to calm him, a fellow passenger said Thursday.
"The wife was telling him: ’Calm down. Let other people get on the plane. It will be all right,"’ said Alan Tirpak. "I thought maybe he’s afraid of flying," Tirpak said. Tirpak took his seat and Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, and his wife eventually boarded the plane. Then, a few minutes before the (...) -
Airline Passenger Who Made Threat? Killed
7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsMIAMI - A passenger who claimed to have a bomb in a carry-on bag was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday on a jetway to an American Airlines plane that had arrived from Colombia, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT Anderson Cooper
Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Doyle said the dead passenger was a 44-year-old U.S. citizen.
It was the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks that an air marshal had shot at a passenger or suspect, he said. A witness said that the man (...) -
Antiwar Protesters Arrested Near Bush Ranch
3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Ordinance Limits Parking, Camping
By Rosalind S. Helderman
CRAWFORD, Tex., - About a dozen antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg and the sister of Cindy Sheehan, were arrested Wednesday morning while camping on a roadside near President Bush’s ranch in violation of a new county ordinance.
The group returned this week as Bush arrived at his Texas home to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family. They came in hopes of reigniting the international attention they attracted in (...) -
AN APPEAL TO FREE THE IRAQI DETAINEES
29 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsI am writing to you, regarding the Iraqis detained by USA troops and the Iraqi security forces. The USA troops have more than 13500 detainees in Abu-Graib, Bucca and (16) other locations. The Iraqi security forces have tens of thousands of detainees. The majority of those were detained without any charge. They were deprived from the Wright to contact lawyers. The Red Cross and Iraqi Red Crescent organizations are not allowed to visit the detainees.
In light of the above facts, you are (...) -
Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil
24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBrazil’s police ’execute thousands’
By Angus Stickler
Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil, a BBC investigation has found.
The authorities say it is mainly criminals caught in military-style raids on drug gangs but according to a former senior official, new evidence suggests that many of the shootings are cold-blooded executions conducted by the police.
Former police ombudsman Professor Julita Lemgruber has told BBC World Service’s (...) -
International outcry greets allegations of police abuse
18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 comments– Ministers launch inquiry after detainees found Shia paramilitaries now control force, say Sunnis
by Ewen MacAskill and Rory McCarthy in Beirut Michael Howard
Seif Saad, an Iraqi guard, showed no remorse yesterday for the detention and alleged abuse of 173 prisoners in Baghdad. "We placed sacks on their heads and tied their hands behind their backs," he said of their arrests, but, as far as he was concerned, they were suspected terrorists.
He was standing in a watchtower overlooking (...) -
Israeli envoy to U.K. questioned in money-laundering probe
17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent
Israeli Ambassador to Britain Zvi Hefetz was questioned Friday by the police international investigations unit over suspicions he was involved in money laundering of the Bank Hapoalim accounts of businessman Vladimir Gusinsky.
Hefetz recently acted as Gusinsky’s agent in Israel.
Police began an investigation into the affair about six months ago, after suspicions were raised that the bank’s Hayarkon branch in Tel Aviv had allegedly been involved (...)