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Monday 28 SepteMber 2020
With anger at police high, officers face greater danger

By DON BABWIN of officers killing people
Associated Press in ways the public sees as
CHICAGO (AP) — A man undeserved (and) rulings
walks up to a squad car like the one in the Breonna
and opens fire on two sher- Taylor case where it looks
iff's deputies sitting inside. like the courts are willing
Two police officers are shot to hold the safety of of-
after responding to sounds ficers above the safety of
of gunfire during a protest. civilians when they are of-
The shootings — one in ten asleep and unarmed,"
Los Angeles and the other said Delores Jones-Brown,
2000 miles (3,200 kilome- a retired professor from the
ters) away in Louisville, Ken- John Jay College of Crimi-
tucky, less than two weeks nal Justice in New York.
later — are stark remind- There's no question that
ers of the dangers law en- police officers all over the
forcement officers face at country feel they are under
a time when anger toward siege.
them in the wake of police "We're hyper vigilant any-
killings of Black Americans, way as a profession, but
such as George Floyd and when officers are shot here
Breonna Taylor, has boiled and another parts of the
over. country, it makes us even
"I think it's more than a Police stand guard on the perimeter of a crime scene after a police officer was shot, Wednesday, more concerned about
suggestion that people Sept. 23, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Associated Press the safety of our officers,"
are seeking to do harm to said Brown, Chicago's po-
cops," Chicago Police Su- say such statistics are not the resulting nationwide in many cities as heavy- lice superintendent.
perintendent David Brown readily available. protests have thrust law en- handed and the target of According to the police
told reporters at a recent But the few statistics avail- forcement officers into the several violent attacks. Offi- department there, 66 offi-
briefing. able, such as those com- spotlight. Videos of Black cers have been shot at, run cers have been shot at thus
The suspect who shot the piled by the FBI, show so Americans being killed or over, blinded and jeered at far this year, compared to
deputies in Los Angeles has far this year 37 law enforce- wounded by police have by angry crowds who have 17 at this point last year. Ten
not been caught, so it's not ment officers in the United played out across the na- wished for their deaths. were struck by the bullets
known why he opened fire. States have been "feloni- tion's television screens, in- The very role of police has and wounded. Last year at
And authorities have not ously killed" in the line of cluding one that showed been called into question this time, three officers had
said why the suspect in Lou- duty compared to 30 such the last moments of Floyd's and become a central been hit.
isville, who was captured, deaths at this point last life under the knee of a theme in this year's elec- In a "Potential Activity Alert,"
targeted the officers. Those year. There are some 8,000 Minneapolis police officer tion. President Donald first reported on by ABC 7 in
shootings came during pro- police agencies around and another showing a Trump and his supporters Chicago, the FBI warned
tests of a grand jury deci- the country, and tens of Kenosha, Wisconsin, officer believe violence against the police department
sion not to charge police thousands of uniformed firing seven bullets into Ja- police deserves more at- that a person had notified
for Taylor's killing. law enforcement officers. cob Blake's back, leaving tention in the national de- the federal agency that
It is unclear how many Experts and law enforce- him paralyzed. bate centered on address- several street gangs had
times officers across the ment officials agree that it In the ensuing demonstra- ing racial inequality in the "formed a pact to 'shoot
country have been shot at is no coincidence that such tions, police have both criminal justice system. on-site any cop that has a
or otherwise attacked this violence comes at a time been criticized by those "Part of what we are seeing weapon drawn on any sub-
year; police departments when Floyd's killing and who saw their response is the response to images ject in public.'"q
Man takes officer’s gun, opens fire inside LA police station

old autistic son in a luxury deliberate, over the spokesperson Danny Frost
New York City hotel room multiple, strenuous said, the office will retry
in 2010. objections of Jordan's Jordan for killing her son,
Friday's ruling by Manhattan counsel, and was a closure Jude Mirra.
Federal Magistrate Judge that the trial court in fact Jordan was sentenced
Sarah Cave stems from acknowledged after the in 2015 to serve 18 years
a 2014 closed courtroom fact may well have been in prison after a jury found
discussion that was erroneous," Cave wrote, her guilty of first-degree
requested by the lead arguing that Jordan's right manslaughter, instead of
prosecutor in the case. to a public trial applied to murder, deciding she was
Cave determined the the proceeding. under "extreme emotional
off-the-record exchange A spokesperson for disturbance" when she
regarding online material Manhattan District Attorney administered her son a fatal
had violated Gigi Jordan's Cy Vance Jr. said in a written dose of Ambien and Xanax.
In this Aug. 11, 2011, file photo, Gigi Jordan, the multimillionaire Sixth Amendment right to statement that the office Lawyers for the nurse-
mother charged with killing her autistic 8-year-old son, appears a public trial. At the time, "strenuously disagrees" with turned-pharmaceutical
in Manhattan Supreme court in New York. one of Jordan's lawyers the ruling and intends to entrepreneur, argued that
Associated Press
repeatedly objected to the immediately appeal the Jordan acted out of fear
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal care millionaire who was private discussion. decision to Manhattan that her life was in danger
judge has ordered a new convicted six years ago of "The trial court's closure federal appeals judges. and that her son would be
trial for a self-made health fatally drugging her 8-year- of the courtroom was If it becomes necessary, left susceptible to abuse.q