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Lopez knows what it’s like to dumpster dive, to be assaulted when sleeping outside, to ask complete strangers for food and water, to routinely feel unsafe. Lopez lived all of that and more in the seven or so months he was homeless in 2012 after losing his job in an Elk Grove tire store, and then his apartment, and then his car, which was repossessed.
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A group of Good Samaritans recently came to the aid of a San Francisco police officer who was being attacked by a homeless man.
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Attorneys for the city of Los Angeles have agreed to pay $4 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed homeless man fatally shot by an LAPD officer in Venice Beach, CA, court records show.
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"There was a transient female walking down the 2900 block of Connie Drive. She actually had a skull in her possession," Sacramento, CA, police Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said. It sounds like a story fit for Halloween, but that was an actual call to police on Wednesday that is now a death investigation.
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A panhandler removed the duty weapon from a New York Police Department officer's holster and used it to fatally shoot a Bronx bodega worker as a late-night dispute over $2 exploded into a deadly street shootout, police said.
Read More →Two police officers were injured Monday in a scuffle with a Boston Public Library patron who had refused to leave an exhibition hall at the institution’s central branch in Copley Square, officials said.
Read More →The commission unanimously sided with Beck on Tuesday, concluding that Officer Clifford Proctor violated department policy when he fatally shot Glenn in the back near the Venice boardwalk. The panel and Beck also faulted Proctor's decision to draw his weapon, along with the tactics he and his partner used leading up to the deadly encounter.
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Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has recommended criminal charges against an officer who killed an unarmed homeless man in Venice, marking the first time as chief that Beck has called for charges in a fatal on-duty shooting.
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NYPD Officer Carlos Ramos has spent the past week collecting presents for a toy drive he organized, inspired by his experience living in a shelter as a 10-year-old.
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A down-on-their-luck family will have a new car this holiday season thanks to the generosity of the head of the Marysville Police Department in Northern California.
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