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Six-day illegal rave in Spanish village "magnificently organised" according to mayor
An illegal rave lasting six days brought 5,000 people to a small village in Spain over the New Year period. Lasting from December 30 to January 4, tents, stalls, caravans and seven stages popped up out of nowhere reportedly less than a mile from the centre of the village of La Peza, The Guardian reports. The village has a population of 1,200, which quintupled in size when the rave was taking place. “By Saturday we were 6,000,” said Fernando Álvarez, the mayor of La Peza’s municipality.
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Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.
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Activists Face 10 Years In Prison After Rescuing 18 Beagle Puppies From Animal Testing Facility
Animal Rebellion is urging the public to take action after it rescued beagle puppies from an MBR Acres animal testing breeding facility in Cambridgeshire in the UK. It freed 18 in total, but two more – named Love and Libby – were seized by the police. The group has set up an online petition calling for the animals to be released to a sanctuary.
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Congress passes bipartisan bill to fund police de-escalation training
In one of its final acts of the year, the House passed bipartisan legislation late Wednesday that would empower law enforcement agencies across the country to adopt de-escalation training when encountering individuals with mental health issues as part of an effort to reduce the number of officer-involved fatalities.
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Arrests made in fatal shooting of Migos rapper Takeoff
Kirshnik Khari Ball, known professionally as Takeoff, was shot and killed on Nov. 1 outside a Houston bowling alley. He was 28.
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San Francisco police propose using robots capable of ‘deadly force’
City’s board of supervisors to consider proposal involving remote-controlled devices
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Luring pedophiles through fake online ads is not entrapment, Supreme Court says
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that online police investigations targeting adults looking to have sex with children do not constitute police entrapment.
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Alleged Drunk Driver Thanked Officer for Pulling Him Over and Asked for a Hug
On Wednesday a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer observed a black Jeep Cherokee driving erratically. The man behind the wheel was determined to be a probable drunk driver after failing a roadside breath test. The incident occurred in Langford, British Columbia in Canada. The situation ended in what could be considered a stereotypically Canadian way.
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Husband buries wife alive, smashes Apple Watch to stop her calling for help
A Washington state man has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder after burying his wife alive and breaking her Apple Watch with a hammer after she used it to call police. Chae An, a 53-year-old man living in Lacey, Washington, has now pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted first-degree murder, first-degree domestic violence kidnapping, and first-degree domestic violence assault. He allegedly committed all of these acts against his estranged wife, Young An.
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Police arrested a suspected serial killer in Stockton, Calif.
A man suspected of killing six men and wounding a woman in a series of shootings in Northern California was arrested before dawn Saturday as he drove through the streets of Stockton, armed with a handgun and possibly searching for another victim, police said.
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A now ex-police officer is charged after shooting a teenager eating in a parking lot
A now-former San Antonio police officer was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault by a peace officer for shooting and gravely wounding a teen eating a hamburger in his car in a parking lot.
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Hundreds of Dogs Saved From Nevada Breeding Farm in Huge Police Operation
Authorities have seized around 300 dogs from a property in Nevada in what officials have described as a "large-scale" animal cruelty situation. Detectives from Nye County Sheriff's Office (NCSO) obtained a search warrant for a property in Amargosa Valley following an investigation and visited the location on Tuesday.
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Iran denies security forces killed 16-year-old, says she fell off roof
Iranian authorities have denied reports security forces killed a 16-year-old girl during protests ignited by the death of a woman in police custody, Iranian media reported on Friday, saying she committed suicide by falling off a roof.
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Uvalde school district suspends entire police force amid fallout from shooting
The Uvalde, Texas, school district, announced the suspension of the entire district police force on Friday.
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San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time
Critics say it will “put the entire city under live surveillance indefinitely.”
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Arizona Legislature won't defend law limiting police filming
The Republican leaders of the Arizona Legislature will not try to defend a new law limiting up-close filming of police that has been blocked by a federal judge, a decision that essentially ends the fight over the contentious proposal.
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San Francisco sued by woman who says her rape-kit DNA was used to arrest her
Jane Doe "was re-victimized by this unconstitutional practice," lawsuit says.
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Deaths of 3 children found on New York beach ruled homicide; mother held but not charged
New York City's medical examiner confirmed Tuesday that the deaths of three children found on the shoreline near Brooklyn's famed Coney Island boardwalk were homicides by drowning. Their mother was in police custody. No charges had been filed as of late Tuesday. Zachary Merdy, 7, Lilana Merdy, 4, and Oliver Bondarev, 3 months, were found early Monday after a nearly three-hour search that began when a relative called police, worried that the woman intended to harm her children.
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Woman whose rape kit DNA was used against her in separate crime sues San Francisco
A woman whose rape kit DNA was used to link her to an unrelated property crime has filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco over the incident, which sparked a national outcry earlier this year.
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A Black pastor sues the police who arrested him while watering his neighbors' flowers
The lawsuit names the city of Childersburg, Ala., which oversees the police department that arrested Jennings, as a defendant.
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