Running from the police in America is a crap shoot, and a dangerous one at that. All too often, police officers will claim that their lives were in danger from a person who simply doesn't want to be locked in a cage for possessing a plant, so they will shoot fleeing suspects — with impunity. Jerime Mitchell learned the hard way how dangerous it can be to flee cops.

On November 1, Cedar Rapids police officer Lucas Jones targeted Mitchell for revenue collection and pulled him over for the non-crime of having a license plate light out.

While Jones was talking with Mitchell, he smelled marijuana, according to the police report. Because he smelled this plant, Jones then claimed the legal right to kidnap Mitchell and throw him in a cage. Up until Jones attempted to deprive Mitchell of his freedom, he was cooperating and being cordial.

Although there is no audio from the stop, we can tell from the pair's body language that things were relatively calm before the handcuffs came out.

However, not wanting to be thrown in a cage for possessing a plant, Mitchell then resisted and tried to escape. According to the police report, an altercation ensued:

— An altercation between the two men ensued when Jones tried to place Mitchell in handcuffs.

— Mitchell tried to get into his truck and leave, but Jones held on and somehow became caught between the open door and truck. Jones told Mitchell to stop, but he accelerated instead.

— Fearing for his life, Jones pulled his service weapon with his free arm and fired three shots at Mitchell's head. One hit Mitchell in the neck, paralyzing him. Jones then broke free and fell backward.

The Dallas Police and Fire Pension System's Board of Trustees suspended lump-sum withdrawals from the pension fund Thursday, staving off a possible restraining order and stopping $154 million in withdrawal requests.

The system was set to pay out the weekly requests Friday. Pension officials said allowing the withdrawals would leave them without the liquid reserves required to sustain the $2.1 billion fund.

"Our situation is currently critical, and we took action," board chairman Sam Friar said.

Pension officials and many police and firefighters have blamed Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings for forcing the latest run on the bank. Dozens of retirees rushed to request withdrawals after Rawlings filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the withdrawals.

By then, more than $500 million had already gushed from the fund since the board proposed benefit cuts in August.

At least 38 people, most of them police officers, were killed, and over 150 people injured in two separate blasts that targeted Turkish security forces in the vicinity of Besiktas stadium in Istanbul.

Thirty police officers, seven civilians, and an unidentified person were killed in the bombings, according to Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu.

"According to the latest information we have received, 38 of our nation's children have reached martyrdom after last night's cruel attack," Soylu told a news conference, as cited by Reuters. He added that Kurdish militants were believed to be responsible for the atrocity.

A 32-year-old German man is accused of persuading around 122 children to send him their nude photos and videos. The suspect likely pretended to be a young girl in an online chat which is popular among children.

Prosecutors in German's Lower Saxony filed the case against the man from the small town of Bad Iburg who reportedly chatted online with children and coaxed them into sending him nude photos or videos of themselves performing sex acts, local media reported on Friday.

The children aged between seven and 13 years old were from Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. The suspect allegedly used a fake name and showed them a video of a young girl he pretended to be so that victims trusted him.

I don't believe any of this is a coincidence at all.

On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that overdose deaths caused by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl—the drug that killed Prince—rose by nearly 75 percent in 2015. On the same day, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced the arrest of six former employees, including a former CEO and two former vice presidents, of the Phoenix-based and NASDAQ-traded fentanyl producer Insys Therapeutics. The individuals are charged with bribing doctors and otherwise conspiring to induce the overprescription of a fentanyl product called Subsys.

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The Israeli army officially inaugurated its new chief rabbi at the beginning of this month - but not before he issued a sworn statement apologizing for past religious rulings that have been roundly criticized as sexist.

Eyal Krim, who has served as the army's second-highest-ranking religious official for the last four years, was elevated to the rank of brigadier general after Israel's high court ruled that the appointment could be allowed.

Krim was to have taken up his post a week previous, but his inauguration was delayed by the court. The order to delay was made after parliamentarians from Meretz, a left-leaning Zionist party, petitioned the high court against his appointment. The petition focused on how Krim had sanctioned the rape of non-Jewish women by Jewish soldiers in 2002.

"Every rabbi, educator or public figure is required to have the ability to retract and to admit a mistake. I do not hesitate to say I erred," Krim wrote in his affidavit.

Krim made the controversial religious rulings when he was a civilian, publishing them on Kipa.co.il, a Hebrew-language web forum popular with Orthodox Jews.

Opponents of the Trans-Pecos Pipeline are finding hope in their last resort.

In a tiny and remote West Texas town, pipeline protesters are following in the footsteps of those at Standing Rock.

Two residents of the 6,000-person city of Alpine were arrested early Tuesday morning on grounds of trespassing after they chained themselves to the entrance gates of a pipeline-construction site owned and operated by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the Dallas-based energy company responsible for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Dozens more stood by, holding electric tea lights and signs denouncing the energy company.

Inspired by the fight against the DAPL near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, the group was protesting a different ETP pipeline project. The Trans-Pecos Pipeline will cut through the spare and pristine Big Bend region of Texas to the border of Mexico, transporting natural gas into Mexico's interior.

This was the latest in a more-than-two-year battle to halt the pipeline's construction, during which its opponents have fought vigilantly, albeit through more institutionalized avenues. Since news of the pipeline began to spread in the spring of 2015, residents concerned about the environmental impact of the pipeline and its infringement on private land have collected signatures and rallied the support of local governance. They sat through condemnation hearings, and even filed suit against the pipeline company. They filed more than 600 comments with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency responsible for regulating the small segment of pipeline that would stretch beneath the Rio Grande, and requested that the entire length of the pipeline be subject to environmental review. Their request was denied in May of this year, and ETP continued construction at full steam.

Many feel their voices have fallen on deaf ears. Now, tired and disillusioned after years of protesting, and with the pipeline very near completion, opponents of the Trans-Pecos Pipeline are trying direct action for the first time.

"Our community has tried protesting in all the other acceptable ways," said Lori Glover, a representative of the Big Bend Defense Coalition who was one of the two arrested Tuesday. "This is the last resort."

As the bitter cold sets in, Denver's homeless population is pleading with city leaders to change course on its urban camping ban.

Current policy is putting lives in danger, according to homeless advocates.

To enforce the ban, police officers make routine sweeps and occasionally clear out homeless people's belongings when violations occur that result in citations being issued.

Seizing those belongings includes taking blankets and sleeping bags needed to stay warm, according to some who attended Monday night's city council meeting.

"You're not helping the situation for us," one homeless person said while addressing council members.

More than a dozen stepped up to have their voices heard. They all had one message: Do away with Denver's ban on urban camping.

"A week ago, it was 20 degrees out when your police officers were taking blankets from women in wheelchairs," claimed one person who spoke to the council.

With temperatures falling to dangerously cold levels this week and shelters close to capacity, advocates said Denver's homeless need more options.