Police 'backed' over NY shooting
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New York's mayor says he will support the city's police chief, after officers shot dead an unarmed black man.
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Police ask for help from 300 young people who may have seen a teenager being shot dead at a disco.
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Four people were found shot to death Saturday night in a condominium, and police said the shootings were not a random act of violence.
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Mayor Bloomberg spoke in favor of a bill that would allow the Justice Department to prevent gun purchases from people on the federal government's terror watch lists. The National Rifle Association opposes the measure.
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The gunmanâs shooting rampage ended when the police fatally shot him, the authorities said.
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Police officials, trying to show openness in the face of high community concern, took the unusual step Wednesday of revealing physical evidence from the scene where an officer fatally shot a 13-year-old black youth who was driving a stolen car that backed into the police car after a brief chase.
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Two state troopers were shot and critically injured last night in western New York, and the police said their main suspect is a fugitive that broke out of jail in April.
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Two Met Police officers suspended after shooting dead an unarmed man are allowed to go back to work.
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A 24-year-old man was in custody after a shooting on Sunday in the Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, N.Y.
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Jurors decide a man shot dead by police while carrying a lighter shaped like a gun was lawfully killed.
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Police said officers shot three people outside a Queens nightclub early Saturday morning, and one was unlikely to survive.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg, saying he was "deeply disturbed," sought to contain community outrage on Monday after New York police killed a black man on his wedding day by firing 50 bullets at three unarmed men.
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Witnesses interviewed for a preliminary report on the police shooting of three men &#151; including a groom on his wedding day &#151; did not mention a fourth, possibly armed man who police say may have been present before officers opened fire, a newspaper reported Monday.
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A Brooklyn man was killed in a drawn-out gunfight with the police yesterday after squeezing a lifetime of mayhem into less than 20 minutes.
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A 23-year-old bridegroom was shot and killed on his wedding day and two other men were wounded outside a New York strip club on Saturday after police opened fire on them, police said.
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg met Tuesday with the family of a man shot and killed by police in an incident that could lead to a federal investigation. Sean Bell died hours before he was to be married to the mother of his two children. Community leaders have demanded to know why police fired as many as 50 rounds at Bell and two friends.
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ATLANTA - A police official said narcotics officers were justified in returning fire on a 91-year-old woman they shot to death after she shot them as they tried to serve a warrant at her house.  Neighbors and relatives said it was a case of mistaken identity.