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• Suspect ID'd after 4 law-enforcement officers gunned down in Charlotte, N.C., day before
• Arizona Senate votes to repeal 1864 abortion law, leaving state with 15-week ban
• Officials break up University of Wisconsin-Madison encampment with 'violence,' student says
• arrested as protesters clash with Charlotte police officers Saturday night
• Police not looking for any more suspects in deadly officer ambush
• Editor of student newspaper at UNC-Chapel Hill details ‘emotional’ year for students
• Keith Lamont Scott

Before joining The Times in 2016, he reported on religion for HuffPost and the Miami Herald, where he was a member of a Pulitzer Prize finalist team recognized for coverage of Haiti. His reporting has also received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society for Features Journalism, the Asian American Journalists Assn., the South Asian Journalists Assn. and the National Headliner Awards. Jennings said he was disappointed that a small group of people could ruin the Fourth of July event for a peaceful crowd of thousands. Jennings said it started when a group of teenagers lit illegal fireworks and started fights.

Suspect ID'd after 4 law-enforcement officers gunned down in Charlotte, N.C., day before

A second protest was simultaneously held at First Ward Park, also in uptown, with hundreds in attendance. At 4 p.m., Gov. Roy Cooper said he is deploying 450 National Guardsman in response to the protests in multiple N.C. “I call police every weekend, every Friday and Saturday night,” Alkahlout said.

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That the event that was being protested had ended, and the participants had left. However, they said protesters still remained and had not yet left. Officers asked the public to avoid the area for the time being. CMPD deemed the protest as unlawful since it happened on private property and that Morris Road was closed down from McAlway Drive to Alliance Drive. Officers said protesters have been told to leave and that anyone remaining could be subject to arrest. — A protest that closed off a section of a Charlotte street Saturday resulted in several arrests, and it was centered on global human rights issues in another country.

Officials break up University of Wisconsin-Madison encampment with 'violence,' student says

Marshals Service task force raced into his yard, taking cover behind a powder-blue Honda sedan. As gunfire blasted through the yard of the two-story home next door, Chhoeun, 54, began livestreaming to Facebook from his iPhone. The incident left four officers dead and another four injured. The suspected shooter, 39-year-old Terry Clark Hughes Jr., was fatally shot by police. Chhoeun watched as one officer was hit after another just nearby. On the first night of the protests, one officer found he was trapped in a car surrounded by a group of protesters.

“One of the protesters arrested for hitting an officer in the face with a rock,” CMPD tweeted. “It’s a repeated thing where the cops keep on shooting black people. Nobody can tell you a white person who got shot by police,” said Nicole Blackwell, 24, who was among demonstrators Thursday night in downtown Charlotte, where police faced off in riot gear against demonstrators.

We tell the stories of people working to solve persistent social problems. We examine how problems can be solved or addressed to improve the quality of life and make a positive difference. Pro-Eritrean regime events are usually organized by expats and are supported by the Eritrean government, Stauffer said. He said the goal is usually to raise money to send back to Eritrea. Eritrea is located in eastern Africa, south of Saudi Arabia and on the Red Sea. The current president is Isaias Afwerki, who has held office since 1993.

Protesters have clashed with police on the I-277 outer loop ramp. A line of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers on bicycles blocked off protesters. Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden told WCNC Charlotte he defends the right for peaceful protests but says the public needs to follow the law. Multiple protesters told WCNC Charlotte that a person fell through a grate in uptown. A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer has suffered minor injuries during Saturday night's protest, CMPD has announced. The officer has been transported to the hospital for treatment of their injuries.

Keith Lamont Scott

In response, the school "significantly increased" security at the site and has asked law enforcement to investigated recent acts of violence, he said. In the aftermath, Officer Vinson was indicted, tried, and found not guilty in the shooting death of Lamont Scott. His acquittal prompted additional protests by local Black Lives Matter activists but these protests remained peaceful. Police also confirmed that 15 people were arrested, including Charlotte Council member Braxton Winston. Charlotte and Mecklenburg leaders declared a State of Emergency after Friday’s protests and ahead of the second night of protests in Charlotte on Saturday. However, moments before, police were prepared for any raucous.

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“About 70% of black households make under $60,000 a year, while almost 60% of white ones make more than that. The median income for white families is 86% higher than blacks and Hispanics. The south side is wealthier and whiter; the north side, where Scott was shot, is more mixed and middle class. The officers were trying to serve two warrants for Hughes' arrest on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and fleeing and eluding, both of which are felonies. The protesters then marched farther down the street and the tensions seem to ease with half of the police riding off on their bikes. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police tweeted that demonstrators were "beginning to move barricades, construction cones and trash cans to block roads and impede traffic" as they marched through the Uptown area of the city.

One protester was arrested for possession of a concealed firearm. A large group of protesters has gathered outside the CMPD Headquarters in uptown Charlotte. They were peacefully chanting "I can't breathe" and "Black Lives Matter" when CMPD officers swarmed around a woman being taken into custody. The individuals were held on the ground as they were detained. HRW notes Afwerki closed all independent newspapers in 2001 and arrested 10 journalists who, as of 2023, have been held incommunicado. HRW also reports that elections have not been held since Afwerki assumed the presidency in 1993, when Eritrea also gained independence from Ethiopia.

Less than an hour later, the inbound lanes of Monroe Road had been reopened. Police said officers there used tear gas in an attempt to quell the unrest in The Hague as rioters torched police cars and a bus. As the incident unfolded, the police department provided regular updates on X. She was charged with inciting to riot, failure to disperse, injury to personal property and assault on a government official.

Chief Jennings says they all work together to create a safety plan. Jennings said CMPD had to briefly pull officers from other divisions to respond to Uptown but they were able to get those officers back on their patrol quickly. He said Hughes was on the home's second floor when he opened fire and he had the officers at a tactical disadvantage.

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The two persons of interest are fully cooperating with the investigation and haven't been charged, he said. When officers approached a house to arrest the suspect, they were immediately met with gunfire and they returned fire, Jennings said. As the police approached the shooter, Chief Jennings told reporters, the officers were met with more gunfire from inside the home. After a long standoff, two women in the home were taken to a police station to be interviewed, the police later said in a statement. When they approached the residence, the suspect, later identified as Terry Clark Hughes Jr., fired at them with an AR-15-style rifle and a 40-caliber handgun from the second floor of a house, the police said. He was later pronounced dead in the front yard of the residence.

Police said, during this time, a female protester struck an officer, and a firearm was seized from her person. May 1 (UPI) -- The University of California, Los Angeles, has informed pro-Palestinian protesters that their encampment is "unlawful" and violates school policies as it moves to disband the demonstration. In the historic first criminal trial of an ex-president, Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a violation of campaign finance law. But despite such a major event, there are no video cameras allowed in the courtroom, and no still photos save for those typically taken of the defense table in a minute-long photo opportunity. Millions of Americans following cannot see what the trial actually looks like. Officers had one man on the ground in handcuffs as protesters chanted, “no justice, no peace."

Throughout the course of the evening, CMPD said between 50 and 75 protesters threw rocks, explosives and other items at officers, police property and into community businesses. Three other Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers who responded to the shooting were shot, Jennings said. They were identified as Christopher Tolley, Michael Giglio and Jack Blowers. Tolley underwent surgery and remains hospitalized in stable condition, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said in a news release. This month, two police officers were killed outside a home near Syracuse, N.Y., during a shootout after they were following up on a traffic violation. Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Kerr Putney told WCNC Charlotte his officers are engaging with protesters who are throwing rocks and bottles at police officers.

Fox News Digital reached out to the department Sunday seeking the identities and more information about those eight arrested. A morning protest over an international issue evolved into a violent day-long standoff in southeast Charlotte on Saturday. Through the afternoon, CMPD updated the public through social media, stating they gave multiple orders in English and Spanish, ordering the crowd to leave. CHARLOTTE — A morning protest over an international issue evolved into a violent day-long standoff in southeast Charlotte on Saturday. Los Angeles fire Capt. Adam VanGerpen told KNBC-TV that there were about 150 people on the train and two people on the bus when the collision happened.