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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2020

Federal Court Panel Shoots Down California Magazine Capacity Law

“Even well-intentioned laws must pass constitutional muster,” Appellate Judge Kenneth Lee wrote for the panel’s majority. California’s ban on magazines holding more than 10 bullets “strikes at the core of the Second Amendment — the right to armed self-defense.”

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2020

Chicago PD Assigns 1,000 Officers to Weekend Anti-Looting Operations

"If that means deploying stop-strip to puncture your tire, if you're caravanning cars to loot, we will disable your car to prevent the caravan," Brown said Thursday. "And we will work very hard to do so. If that means deploying tow trucks to impound your cars that are caravanning, CPD will do so."

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2020

Denver Councilmember Proposes Bill to Abolish Police Department

A member of the Denver City Council has drafted a piece of legislation that will all but abolish that city's police department.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2020

West Virginia Teen Writes Letter of Thanks to Police Department

The letter said, "I'm 18 years old and was raised to believe police officers are here to protect me and I still whole-heartedly believe that no one deserves to endure what the officers of this country are experiencing."

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2020

California Entrepreneur Seeks to Fund Construction of Police Training Facility

A billionaire real estate mogul in California's Silicon Valley is seeking to fund the construction of a police training facility in South San Jose.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2020

ACLU Sues Boston Police for Alleged Excessive Use of Force at Protests

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Boston Police Department for withholding records related to recent anti-police demonstrations.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2020

6-Year-Old Girl Delivers Gifts to Rural NY Police Department

Officers with the Bath (NY) Police Department were visited by a six-year-old girl who wanted to give thanks to them for their service to the community, and give to them some tokens of appreciation she made by hand.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 14, 2020

California Officer Whose K-9 Died in Hot Car Will Not Be Charged

K-9 Ozzy—a drug-detection dog—was found dead in the patrol vehicle by his handler in August 2019.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 13, 2020

Austin Cuts Police Budget by One-Third

These immediate cuts would include eliminating funding from three planned police cadet classes and reallocating funds to areas like violence prevention, food access, and abortion access programs. However, the council said it may allow one or two cadet classes to begin in fiscal year 2021 if a revised curriculum is completed and a "more appropriate recruitment program" is implemented.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 13, 2020

Off-Duty Texas Officer Killed in Motorcycle Crash at Sturgis Festival

An off-duty officer with the Navasota (TX) Police Department was killed in a motorcycle crash during a trip to South Dakota for the annual Sturgis Festival.

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