Bring That Week Back: Jury Does Not Indict Officer in Shooting of Jordan Baker
Plus, armed suspect ambushes and fires at LAPD officers.
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Grand Jury Lets Off Officer Who Killed Man in Houston - Armed suspect ambushes and fires at LAPD officers, plus more national news. — Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_) A Harris County grand jury decided Tuesday that Officer Juventino Castro, who killed Jordan Baker, 26, had probable cause in the shooting. In January, while working his security job, Castro tried to stop Baker on suspicion that he was shoplifting at a mall. Police say Baker charged at Castro and that's when he fired his gun. (Photo: ABC News 13)
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Armed Suspect Fires at LAPD Vehicle - Authorities are searching for an armed suspect who they believed opened fire on two LAPD officers while they were in a patrol car on Sunday night, according to the LA Times. Police Deputy Chief Bob Green said the incident was an ambush. A rifle was found at the scene. Neither officer was hurt, but the shooting comes days after two NYPD officers were killed in a surprise attack. (Photo: DPA/Landov)
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Chicago Cops Shoot and Kill Suicidal Man Wielding Knife - Chicago police shot and killed Terrence Gilbert, 25, who was allegedly threatening suicide on Christmas night, the Chicago Tribune reports. When the cops arrived to his home, he lunged at officers with a knife in his hand, cutting through the cop's protective vest twice. The officers asked him to drop the knife, but instead he charged again. Gilbert was then shot twice in the torso. He died at a nearby hospital. (Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
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Black Officers Say They Fear the Police, Too - Black officers in the NYPD are targets of police brutality and racial profiling, too, according to a investigative interview Reuters conducted with 25 African-American male officers. Only one said they had not been a victim of profiling while either on duty or off duty. Out of the one-third who spoke up and filed complaints, only one said that his supervisor took action. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Howard University Football Player Killed in Shooting - Terrence Tusan, 22, a running back for the Howard University Bisons, died due to a gunshot wound over the weekend in Dallas, according to the Dallas Morning News. He was home for the holiday break and his mother reported him missing after she did not hear from him for two days. Tusan was one of two suspects killed in a robbery. Both deaths were ruled a homicide. (Photo: Alex Goodlett/Getty Images)
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