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Mourners honor slain officer seen as ‘cops’ cop’

The police has said that gunman Micah Johnson, a former member of the military, was aiming to kill white poepoe, especially police officials.

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Just 7 percent of residents are black in St. Anthony and neighboring Lauderdale and Falcon Heights, according to census data.

All told, roughly 38 per cent of the people arrested by the St. Anthony Police Department since 2011 have been black. Officers in the police department wore their dark blue uniforms.

Five members of the MBTA Transit Police honor guard are in Dallas Wednesday to participate in funeral services for DART Officer Brent Thompson, one of five Dallas-area police officers murdered by a sniper last week. It says his permit to carry is enclosed. He is the first Dallas transit agency officer killed in the line of duty since the agency’s police force was founded in 1989.

Allysza Castile says she and her brother took a gun class together a year ago.

The St. Anthony Police Department did not participate in the 2003 study for the Legislature, although 65 other law enforcement jurisdictions did.

The data provided by the department does not give details about individual arrests, nor does it show when an arrestee was also issued a citation.

Groups including the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana sued the Baton Rouge Police Department in federal court on Wednesday, alleging that police violated protesters’ rights to freedom of speech and assembly guaranteed by the US Constitution’s First Amendment. Hundreds gathered Wednesday at Prestonwood Baptist Church in the Dallas suburb of Plano to mourn the 6-foot-5, 300-lb. Ultimately, seven other officers and two civilians were also injured.

The shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota were the latest in a series of high-profile police killings of black men in various U.S. cities that have brought intense scrutiny of police use of force, particularly against black suspects.

Snyder will be joined by officers from Madison and West Haven, as well as officers from Middletown who left for Dallas Wednesday morning.

The officers slain in Dallas last week were patrolling a demonstration decrying the killings by police of Alton Sterling, 37, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, 32, outside St. Paul, Minnesota. Authorities are telling the demonstrators to leave the interstate.

Irving police say the officer was slowing down traffic ahead of where the funeral procession for DPD Sr. Cpl.

A private funeral for Smith is planned Wednesday at the Farmers Branch church he and his family attended, and a public service will take place Thursday at the Dallas church where he worked security.

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Katrina Ahrens, wife of Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens comforts their son after shots were fired in a salute a the graveside servicefor Senior Corporal Lorne Ahrens on July 13, 2016 at Restland Funeral Home in Richardson, Texas. Dallas Police Officer Michael Krol’s funeral is set for Friday, and Dallas police Officer Patrick Zamarripa’s funeral will be held Saturday.

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