Dallas officer faces manslaughter in apartment shooting

The firing comes five years after Eric Garner died during an altercation with New York Police officers. Garner's dying words, "I can't breathe," became a rallying cry to protest police violence in the US.

This video is from September 21. Protesters in Hong Kong clashed with police again. Police say one officer was attacked by at least ten rioters.

Some extraordinary good deeds, even when it seems no one is watching, do not go un-noticed. This is what the governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu demonstrated when he gave an award of recognition to the Ogudu Divisional police officer, Celestina Nwankwo.

A young woman was on board an airplane about to set off to an arranged marriage in Sri Lanka against her will. But at the last second, an alert police officer intervened.

A police officer was killed after two suicide bombers launched an attack outside the US embassy in Tunis on Friday. Togo and Cameroon become the latest countries in Africa to confirm coronavirus cases. And we meet a businesswoman who has launched an all-female taxi company in the DRC.

The officer has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter following the death of unarmed black man George Floyd while in custody. The move follows three days of protests that have escalated into violence.

On May 26, the Ezekwe family was thrown into turmoil after a trigger-happy policeman, Theophilus Otobo, shot into a crowd, hitting young Tina. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The teenager, who aspired to become a medical doctor and was preparing for her secondary school certificate exams, died two days later. ⁣ ⁣ Today would have been Tina's birthday. Now, her family, as well as her community in the Lagos suburb of Oworo, are experiencing a pain that has become all too familiar among Nigerians: the pain of losing loved ones to police brutality.⁣⁣

Derek Chauvin, the 44-year-old white officer who was filmed pressing his knee on the handcuffed Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, made his first court appearance on Monday. Chauvin did not enter a plea and the Hennepin County District Court judge set his bail at $1 million with conditions, or $1.25 million without.

NSCDC officer, police officer, one other person killed in Kaduna

One officer was charged over the botched raid that led to the killing of a Black woman in Kentucky — but the grand jury brought no charges directly related to her death. Protests turned violent, with two officers shot.

"Doctor Luque is not formally charged," says one of the lawyers for Diego Maradona's surgeon, Leopoldo Luque, after prosecutors in San Isidro, near Buenos Aires, said they were investigating him over the treatment the football legend received for his heart condition following his discharge from hospital.

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