Dallas Police Shootings
With less than a month until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, tensions are on the rise in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The killing of a black 16-year-old in one of the city's northern neighbourhoods last Thursday has infuriated inhabitants. They blame the police, and have been holding protests against police brutality in the favelas, in particular toward young black people.
According to several neighbourhood residents interviewed in the Brazilian press, Jhonata Dalber Mattos Alves was out shopping for his family when a police officer shot him in the head, apparently confusing the bag of popcorn in his hands for a packet of drugs, or a weapon. This account of the incident was immediately denied by the police, who claim the young man was killed during a gunfight between several officers and criminals. The police have not specified who, exactly, fired the fatal shot.
The Homicide Division, the section of the state police tasked with the investigation, maintains that no weapons that could have belonged to the young man or some other shooter were found at the scene. Additionally, no one involved in the alleged gun battle has been arrested or identified. Investigators are still attempting to determine if there indeed was some exchange of gunfire and if Mattos Alves was involved, according to Fabio Cardoso, a Homicide Division representative.
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Mayor: shot heard after suspect taken out by explosive
Rawlings appeared to confirm that the suspect shot himself after being wounded by a police explosive.
Speaking to CNN he said: “We were able to take out one of the suspects who had been corned in a garage, with an explosive device. We have got possible suspects that we are interviewing. They are not being real cooperative at this point.”
Asked how the suspect was killed, Rawlings said: “There seemed to be gunshot some time after the explosion took place. We are going to have all that and make sure we have our I’s dotted and T’s crossed at our press conference this morning. We had a device that we robotically sent in – an explosive device. He was being very very bellicose and very saying he was going to take everybody out. He threatened other bombs. We felt that was the safest way to get him and it was.”
Summary
- Five police officers have been shot dead by snipers at a protest in Dallas
- Six more officers were injured in the shooting, some critically
- Three suspects are in custody and are refusing to co-operate with police
- One further suspect, who had been in a stand-off with police, is now dead, US media reports say
- The protest in Dallas was sparked by the shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling by police in Minnesota and Louisiana
Democratic Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who represents Dallas, has called on Congress to take action against gun violence following the shootings.
Police are sweeping parts of downtown Dallas for explosives after a suspect told officers he had planted devices in the area.
Major Max Geron, a senior Dallas police officer, said the search would take "quite a while".
Dallas police shooting: Mark Hughes says police lied about him shooting officers after wrongly identifying him as suspect
The black man wrongly accused of being a suspect in the Dallas shootings has accused police interrogators of lying to him in an attempt to unfairly “get him”.
Mark Hughes said he had received death threats and could have easily been shot dead after his photo was wrongly released by Dallas Police with the plea “This is one of our suspects, please help us find him.”
Speaking to a US television news crew after emerging from a police interrogation room, Mr Hughes said: “I can’t believe it. The crazy thing about it is with hindsight, I could easily have been shot.”
Mr Hughes claimed he was interrogated by police “With police officers lying, saying they have video of me shooting, which is a lie, saying that they have witnesses saying that I shot a gun, which is a lie.
Chinese agents acted like triads, says bookseller in abduction row
Lam Wing-kee, one of five Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared, says he made forced confessions to mainland police and is considering fleeing to Taiwan
An outspoken Hong Kong bookseller who has become a symbol of opposition to China’s authoritarian government has accused Chinese security agents of behaving like the notorious triad gangs in a bid to silence the publishers of provocative books about the country’s leaders.
Lam Wing-kee shot to prominence in June when he revealed how he had beenspirited into secret detention in eastern China by a mysterious group of agents supposedly acting on the orders of the Communist party leadership.
Lam – one of five Hong Kong booksellers to vanish in mysterious circumstances since 2015 – claimed he had spent months in solitary confinement and had even considered taking his own life.
After attack on Israelis, Palestinian doctor stops to help
At a time of hostility, a Palestinian doctor stopped to help Israeli shooting victims in the West Bank and opened a window of understanding. Daniella Cheslow reports from the West Bank.
Shira Mark-Harif says she had a bad feeling Friday when she heard there had been a Palestinian shooting attack on an Israeli car in the southern West Bank. Her parents and a brother and sister were driving that morning on a highway near their home in the Otniel settlement.
"I just tried to call to my mom, and she didn't answer to me," said Mark-Harif, 24. "Then I called to my father. And he didn't answer to me. And I knew."
Her father Miki - who had 10 children - didn't make it.
But her mother survived - thanks in part to a Palestinian doctor who stopped to help. Mark-Harif says her sister Tehila was in the car, and at first, she was terrified to see a Palestinian approach her.
Black teen shot dead in Rio favela inflame tensions with police
OBSERVERS
With less than a month until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, tensions are on the rise in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. The killing of a black 16-year-old in one of the city's northern neighbourhoods last Thursday has infuriated inhabitants. They blame the police, and have been holding protests against police brutality in the favelas, in particular toward young black people.
According to several neighbourhood residents interviewed in the Brazilian press, Jhonata Dalber Mattos Alves was out shopping for his family when a police officer shot him in the head, apparently confusing the bag of popcorn in his hands for a packet of drugs, or a weapon. This account of the incident was immediately denied by the police, who claim the young man was killed during a gunfight between several officers and criminals. The police have not specified who, exactly, fired the fatal shot.
The Homicide Division, the section of the state police tasked with the investigation, maintains that no weapons that could have belonged to the young man or some other shooter were found at the scene. Additionally, no one involved in the alleged gun battle has been arrested or identified. Investigators are still attempting to determine if there indeed was some exchange of gunfire and if Mattos Alves was involved, according to Fabio Cardoso, a Homicide Division representative.
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