At least 15 US officers mistook guns for Tasers. Three were convicted
14 Apr, 2021 11:38 PM
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Robert Bates was convicted of manslaughter after he said he mistakenly shot a man with a gun instead of a Taser in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2015. Photo / AP
Robert Bates was convicted of manslaughter after he said he mistakenly shot a man with a gun instead of a Taser in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2015. Photo / AP
New York Times
By: Alan Feuer and Mihir Zaveri
Prosecuting police in cases of so-called weapon confusion has happened before, but the legal landscape is complex.
It happened in a flash.
Ministry: Genocide in Xinjiang another US lie By Zhou Jin | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-04-01 07:08 Share CLOSE Emin (2nd L), a resident of Uygur ethnic group, chats with his neighbors in Tacheng city, Northwest China s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, April 2, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
China called the genocide in Xinjiang , fabricated in a new United States report, a preposterous lie , saying on Wednesday that its conspiracy to disrupt China from the inside will not work.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said that the allegations against the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region made in the US State Department s 2020 human rights report were false, insulted the Chinese people and trampled on international law and basic norms governing international relations.
School community rallies around Tairua boat rage teacher after resignation
1 Apr, 2021 11:00 AM
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A man was caught on camera ramming a family s boat and sinking his own in a boat-rage incident in Tairua.
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A man was caught on camera ramming a family s boat and sinking his own in a boat-rage incident in Tairua.
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A big turnout is expected at tomorrow s school assembly for Tairua School to farewell Catherine Browning, the deputy principal caught up in a boat rage incident at the nearby wharf.
At a recent board meeting, the Tairua School community had called on the Board of Trustees to do everything in its power to persuade the deputy principal embroiled in the incident to reconsider her resignation.