Bring That Week Back: Jury Does Not Indict Officer in Shooting of Jordan Baker

Plus, armed suspect ambushes and fires at LAPD officers.

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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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)

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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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)

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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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)

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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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)

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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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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Officer Placed on Leave for Threatening #BlackLivesMatter Protesters - Officer Phillip White of the San Jose Police Department was placed on leave after tweeting threats toward protesters of the shooting deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. He wrote, if anyone "feels they can't breathe or their lives matter," they could find him at a movie theater off duty with his gun, the Associated Press writes. His page has been deleted. (Photo: AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Gary Reyes)

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Officer Placed on Leave for Threatening #BlackLivesMatter Protesters - Officer Phillip White of the San Jose Police Department was placed on leave after tweeting threats toward protesters of the shooting deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. He wrote, if anyone "feels they can't breathe or their lives matter," they could find him at a movie theater off duty with his gun, the Associated Press writes. His page has been deleted. (Photo: AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Gary Reyes)

More Questions Since Evidence Made Public  - Following the St. Louis grand jury decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson in killing Michael Brown, a transcript of the proceedings and evidence reviewed by the panel were released to the public. BET.com runs down 10 things that we learned about the documents and case that have left Brown’s family and lawyers criticizing St. Louis prosecutor Bob McCulloch for how the case was handled. — Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_)   (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW) (Photo: REUTERS / Cristina Fletes-Boutte/POOL/LANDOV)

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St. Louis Prosecutor Knows Witnesses Lied, Isn't Looking to Charge Them - St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch said on a recent radio interview with KTRS 550 that it was clear that "some [witnesses] were not telling the truth" when they testified to the grand jury in the Darren Wilson case. He does not plan on pressing charges on those who lied. (Photo: REUTERS/Cristina Fletes-Boutte/Pool/LANDOV)

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Judge Declares Mistrial in Phylicia Barnes Killing - A mistrial was declared Monday in the case of the 2010 killing and rape of Phylicia Barnes, the Baltimore Sun reports. Judge John Howard decided that the prosecutors had shown the jury evidence that was not supposed to be revealed. The case will now go to a third trial. Michael Maurice Johnson was acquitted in the first trial but the judge overturned the ruling.  (Photo: AP Photo/Courtesy of Baltimore Police Department)

Two Arrests Made in Texas Teen's Rape - Two arrests have been made in the rape of Jada, a 16-year-old whose sexual assault was videotaped and went viral over the summer. Jada gave an interview to MSNBC's Ronan Farrow last week. The teen says she was drugged and raped while at a party. The exposure of the incident led to her being taunted and blamed for the incident.    (Photo: Ronan Farrow Daily via MSNBC)

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Two Arrests Made in Texas Teen's Rape - Two arrests have been made in the rape of Jada, a 16-year-old whose sexual assault was videotaped and went viral over the summer. Jada gave an interview to MSNBC's Ronan Farrow last week. The teen says she was drugged and raped while at a party. The exposure of the incident led to her being taunted and blamed for the incident.  (Photo: Ronan Farrow Daily via MSNBC)

Mom Portrayed in The Blind Side Called Out for Self-Righteous Post - Leigh Ann Tuohy, whose real life story was portrayed in The Blind Side, posted a photo that looks like she's selling a script for another film. A person she was with saw the boys in the photo above "huddled over in a corner table" at a KFC and thought they were up to no good. Tuohy sat down with them and found out they were "trying to scrape up $3.00" for a school game. She gave them the money. "Don't judge a book by its cover," she wrote. A boy in the photo was less than enthused. "The way she worded it is making us seem less fortunate and that isn't the case at all...," he wrote.  (Photo: Leigh Anne Tuohy via Instagram)

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Mom Portrayed in The Blind Side Called Out for Self-Righteous Post - Leigh Ann Tuohy, whose real life story was portrayed in The Blind Side, posted a photo that looks like she's selling a script for another film. A person she was with saw the boys in the photo above "huddled over in a corner table" at a KFC and thought they were up to no good. Tuohy sat down with them and found out they were "trying to scrape up $3.00" for a school game. She gave them the money. "Don't judge a book by its cover," she wrote. A boy in the photo was less than enthused. "The way she worded it is making us seem less fortunate and that isn't the case at all...," he wrote. (Photo: Leigh Anne Tuohy via Instagram)