The suspects in the shooting were taken into custody. The deceased officer is a 29-year-old woman. She is the first Chicago officer in almost two years to be fatally shot while on duty. A Chicago police officer was dead and another fought for his life after a shooting at a traffic stop on Sunday, authorities … Read more
CHICAGO – As part of the Biden administration’s approach to combating escalating gun violence in the US, the Justice Department on Thursday deployed five new arms trafficking “strike forces” to combat the illegal flow of firearms across state lines. Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke to U.S. attorneys and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, … Read more
A Chicago man was charged with attempted murder after allegedly driving his car to a picnic, according to police. Witnesses said the man also made anti-Asian comments during the incident, according to local news outlets. Timothy Nielsen, 57, was arrested Saturday and charged with four attempted murders after “deliberately jumping the curb in his vehicle … Read more
April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ET April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ETA demonstrator outside the Brooklyn Center police department on Thursday night.Credit…Victor J. Blue for The New York Times BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — For a fifth night after a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb shot and killed a 20-year-old man, hundreds of people rattled … Read more
CHICAGO – A Chicago police officer was transferred to administrative service after he shot and killed a teenage boy in what an officer described as an “armed confrontation”. The boy was Adam Toledo, who, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, died of murder from a gunshot wound to the chest. Toledo, who was … Read more