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As demonstrators in the United States protest against recent incident in which police officers killed African American men, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has found a way to blame Israel. New York University's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine shared a post on its Facebook page claiming that "the same forces behind the genocide of black people in America are behind the genocide of Palestinians." Aside from the extreme hyperbole in describing growth from 1.3 million to 12.3 million over the past 70 years as "genocide," the accusations bring to mind anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the...

A Clarksdale, Mississippi, police officer is in the hospital after being shot. Clarksdale Mayor Bill Luckett said the officer was shot in the head while responding to an armed robbery at a convenience store. The robbery happened at 8:57 p.m. The officer is at the hospital getting treatment. Luckett said two robbers came into the front door of the Corner Grocery at the corner of Sunflower Avenue and Second Street. The men were both wearing masks and one had a pistol. Luckett said the two clerks then ran out the back door. The two men stole money out of the...

This is a must read for anyone interested in cop shootings. The author,Phila Bulletin columnist Michael P. Tremoglie not talks about his own experiences as a cop he has got data about cop shootings in here that takes a flame thrower to the myths and claims by Al Shartpon and company. http://www.theeveningbulletin.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17567142&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=574088&rfi=6

A routine traffic stop ended in a barrage of gunfire Monday afternoon in quiet Algiers Point, leaving a 25-year-old New Orleans police officer critically wounded. Police arrested Eddie Alan Harrison, 23, of New Orleans, and booked him with attempted first-degree murder. Joshua Hall, 17, of New Orleans, was booked with traffic violations but may be booked with being an accessory to attempted first-degree murder, said New Orleans Police Department spokeswoman Bambi Hall. The shooting was reported at 3:07 p.m. after two officers stopped a car driven by Joshua Hall in the 600 block of Slidell Avenue at Verret Street, police...