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Videos of police officers using excessive force and controversies over fatal shootings surface regularly. In response, many police departments have updated their training on such subjects as dealing with the public, deescalation, mental health and implicit bias.
President Trump called off for now his wide-ranging threat to deport “millions” of undocumented immigrants, demanding that Democrats and Republicans forge a plan to stanch the record flows of asylum-seeking families across the southern border into the U.S.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker made Illinois the first state to forbid such detention centers. He also signed legislation that bars local law enforcement agencies from engaging in federal immigration enforcement with ICE.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal’s new policies strengthen the way prosecutors examine witnesses before they testify in court and establishes a way to track damning information about cops.
E. Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who has accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s, is considering bringing a complaint to the New York Police Department. Mayor Bill de Blasio would support such a probe, but the statute of limitations probably has expired.
Cook County Judge Michael Toomin ordered a special prosecutor appointed to re-investigate the circumstances of onetime “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett’s alleged hoax attack on a frigid January night in downtown Chicago. The judge blasted prosecutor Kim Foxx’s handling of the case.
Mississippi prosecutor Doug Evans will decide whether to try Curtis Flowers for murder for a seventh time after the Supreme Court overturned the latest conviction, citing racial bias in jury selection.
After Taylor Irby’s husband was jailed for running her off the road, she took his guns and turned them over to police. Then she was jailed.
In the continuing “palace intrigue” at the National Rifle Association, chief lobbyist Christopher Cox has been put on administrative leave. He calls the charges “offensive and patently false.”
Lawyers inspecting a Border Patrol detention center in Texas say kids are taking care of kids, and there’s inadequate food, water and sanitation for the 250 infants, children and teens. Congress may allocate more funds for border child care.