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In the US - there's also strong concern over how far and with how much immunity, police can push their sweeping powers. A recent human rights group report blamed law enforcement officers for tasering 500 people to death over the last decade. And Tim Cavanaugh, managing director of Reason dot COM, says for Americans, the first reaction to police is fear, rather than trust.
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Retired cop Timothy Davis' wife and daughter side with him, saying an accidental shooting left Timothy Davis Jr. dead Oct. 1, 2011. But prosecutors say there is evidence suggesting otherwise, with surveillance video of Davis' allegedly retrieving a gun from his car and then aiming it at his son.
"I believe, I believe, I believe my son was shot. In front of my house," Tarsha Davis is heard saying on the 911 call.
As jury selection began Monday, Davis Sr. could be seen in court reading through a bible.
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I shot this video at Walmart in Columbus Ohio, and I think excessive force was used. You be the judge.....just to clear things up; she was left in the car, they were in the process of moving and had all the silverware and kitchen stuff in the car, she cut herself out of the seatbelt because she didn't know how to unbuckle it. She had NO INTENTION OF HURTING ANYONE!
When the acclaimed television drama series Homeland climaxed with a devious plot by terrorists to kill America's vice-president by hacking into his electronic pacemaker, critics scoffed at the ludicrousness of the idea.
But the outrageous storyline was thought credible by many in the world of computer security.
Among those was the New Zealand-born computer hacker Barnaby Jack.
The 35-year-old - who, unlike many in the business, used his skills 'ethically' - had spent his career demonstrating the dangers posed by unscrupulous hackers combined with computer manufacturers' failure to install proper safety devices on equipment.
Jack thought it highly plausible that a terrorist could hack into someone's pacemaker and speed up their heartbeat until it killed them.
He also believed it was possible to infect the pacemaker companies' servers with a bug that would spread through their systems like a virus.
But the outrageous storyline was thought credible by many in the world of computer security.
Among those was the New Zealand-born computer hacker Barnaby Jack.
The 35-year-old - who, unlike many in the business, used his skills 'ethically' - had spent his career demonstrating the dangers posed by unscrupulous hackers combined with computer manufacturers' failure to install proper safety devices on equipment.
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Mr Jack spent his career demonstrating the dangers posed by unscrupulous hackers combined with computer manufacturers¿ failure to install proper safety devices on equipment
Mr Jack spent his career demonstrating the dangers posed by unscrupulous hackers combined with computer manufacturers¿ failure to install proper safety devices on equipment
He also believed it was possible to infect the pacemaker companies' servers with a bug that would spread through their systems like a virus.
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On August 4, 1967, 15-year-old James Wolcott shot dead his parents and 17-year-old sister with 22-caliber rifle.
Wolcott admitted to the crimes, saying that he hated his mother because she chewed food loudly and his sister because she had a bad accent.
Doctors diagnosed Wolcott with paranoid schizophrenia made worse by his addiction to airplane glue.
Six years later, Wolcott was released from mental hospital after being declared sane.
Changed his name to James St James in 1976 and went on to earn Master's degree and PhD.
A beloved 61-year-old psychology professor has been outed as a killer who murdered his family as a teenager and was committed to a mental hospital for only six years after being found insane.
The bespectacled, mustachioed chairman of Millikin University's department of behavior sciences in Illinois has been identified by a reporter from the Texas newspaper The Georgetown Advocate as James Wolcott, who murdered his parents and older sister in cold blood when he was 15 years old.
Wolcott admitted to the crimes, saying that he hated his mother because she chewed food loudly and his sister because she had a bad accent.
Doctors diagnosed Wolcott with paranoid schizophrenia made worse by his addiction to airplane glue.
Six years later, Wolcott was released from mental hospital after being declared sane.
Changed his name to James St James in 1976 and went on to earn Master's degree and PhD.
A beloved 61-year-old psychology professor has been outed as a killer who murdered his family as a teenager and was committed to a mental hospital for only six years after being found insane.
The bespectacled, mustachioed chairman of Millikin University's department of behavior sciences in Illinois has been identified by a reporter from the Texas newspaper The Georgetown Advocate as James Wolcott, who murdered his parents and older sister in cold blood when he was 15 years old.
A California police officer shot and killed an unarmed 22-year-old homeless man at a shopping center earlier this week and an eyewitness captured the murder on cell phone video.
Hans Kevin Arellano, 22, was shot and killed by a police officer after a confrontationThe witness, who wished to remain unidentified, was standing in the parking lot of the Harbor Place Shopping Center in Santa Ana around 3 p.m. Tuesday when he filmed the confrontation in front of Jugo's La Tropicana, a juice shop, between an officer and victim Hans Kevin Arellano.
'She exited her patrol car, gun drawn, and asked the gentlemen to get on the ground. The gentlemen didn't get on the ground, he was still inside the restaurant,' the witness told KCAL9.com. 'She asked again. The man then exited the restaurant, and as he was exiting the restaurant, he said, "What are you gonna do, b****?" About a second later, she shot him in the chest.'
The victim, Hans Kevin Arellano, can be seen in the grainy video falling to his knees shortly after the bang of a loud gunshot.
The officer, a female who was later identified as a 13-year-veteran, was called to the scene as back-up after reports of criminal activity at the Jugo's La Tropicana.
Santa Ana Police Chief Carlos Rojas said that Arellano was a convicted burglar and that he was 'combative.'
Hans Kevin Arellano, 22, was shot and killed by a police officer after a confrontation
'She exited her patrol car, gun drawn, and asked the gentlemen to get on the ground. The gentlemen didn't get on the ground, he was still inside the restaurant,' the witness told KCAL9.com. 'She asked again. The man then exited the restaurant, and as he was exiting the restaurant, he said, "What are you gonna do, b****?" About a second later, she shot him in the chest.'
The victim, Hans Kevin Arellano, can be seen in the grainy video falling to his knees shortly after the bang of a loud gunshot.
The officer, a female who was later identified as a 13-year-veteran, was called to the scene as back-up after reports of criminal activity at the Jugo's La Tropicana.
Santa Ana Police Chief Carlos Rojas said that Arellano was a convicted burglar and that he was 'combative.'
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What Mohammad Arif Ali and his brother did shocked Pakistan.
What Mohammad Arif Ali and his brother did shocked Pakistan.
We began by following an oxcart-rutted dirt track for as far as it would go in Punjab province. Then we walk another kilometre or so through humid maize and sugarcane plantations to reach the farmhouse.
The brothers are not there, their uncle, Wali Deen, tells me. He is also not happy to see me.
"Interview the corpse-eaters? They didn't eat corpses. They are just the victims of their neighbours' jealousy," he says defiantly.
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Wali Deen insists that his nephews are not cannibals.
Wali Deen insists that his nephews are not cannibals.
Because they killed no one and there is no law relating to cannibalism in Pakistan, the pair only served about two years in jail for desecrating a grave following their arrest in April 2011.
The overwhelming evidence of cannibalism created a serious law and order situation in the area around the small desert town of Darya Khan, located along the western fringes of Punjab, some 200km (124 miles) south of the capital, Islamabad.
In June, people of the town were stunned when the brothers were released from jail. Angry protesters set tyres on fire on a major highway in the area, blocking traffic for several hours.
The police had to take the brothers into protective custody to prevent them from being lynched. Their whereabouts since their release have been largely unknown.
Comment: The jury apparently fell for the Bible trick, mistaking a man who murdered his own son for a 'Jesus-loving Christian':