State trooper accused of restraining, choking girlfriend

Edit Boston Herald 25 Apr 2016
BOXBOROUGH, Mass ... They say he restrained and choked her, and at one point put her in a chokehold before she was able to break free ... ....

Man Arrested After Police Say He Tweeted A Bomb Threat To Trump Rally

Edit WPTV 25 Apr 2016
While there was never a real threat to the Waterbury rally, Trump had some other troubles in Connecticut on Saturday. AOL reported that multiple protesters were escorted from his Bridgeport rally, and an officer put a man in a >chokehold before dragging ......

Trooper charged with choking girlfriend

Edit Boston Herald 25 Apr 2016
A Massachusetts state trooper has been placed on leave after fellow troopers charged him with trying to strangle his live-in girlfriend Friday night. The 45-year-old trooper, who was not immediately identified, was arrested at his home in Boxboro last night ... Police said the trooper assaulted his girlfriend on Friday in their apartment, putting her in a chokehold before she was able to break free ... ....

city to pay $6 million after 12-year-old's death

Edit Vox 25 Apr 2016
On November 22, 2014, Tamir Rice was throwing snowballs and playing with a toy pellet gun in a Cleveland park when a police car rolled into the snowy field. Within two seconds of getting out of his squad car, officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed the 12-year-old ... Warning ... He later added, "It's probably fake." ... In New York City, NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner by putting the unarmed 43-year-old black man in a chokehold....

Connecticut student charged with threatening to bomb Trump rally

Edit The Examiner 24 Apr 2016
Sean Morkys, a psychology student from Connecticut, was arrested on Saturday for threatening to blow up a Trump rally. The Secret Service reportedly picked up one of the tweets sent by the student which read "Is someone going to bomb the Trump rally or am I going to have to do it." ... Morky has reportedly been released on 25,000 bond ... A man who was protesting at Trump's Connecticut rally, was reportedly put in a chokehold and escorted out....

Anti-Trump protester choked by cop, yanked from Connecticut rally

Edit New York Daily News 23 Apr 2016
An overzealous anti-Trump protester was put in a chokehold and dragged out of a Connecticut rally Saturday by police ... ....

Penguins dominate Rangers, 5-0, to take 3-1 lead in series

Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 22 Apr 2016
NEW YORKThe Penguins took a chokehold on their first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers with a 5-0 victory in Game 4 at Madison Square Garden tonight ... ....

Shutting Down New Paths To Opportunity (California Chamber of Commerce)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. California Chamber of Commerce). AB 1727 Hurts California Consumers, Workers and Employers. Cross Posted in Fox and Hounds Daily. Allan Zaremberg. California employers lead the way in so many important technologies and industries. The jobs we create fuel our economy and improve lives ... This would put a chokehold on small businesses who will be forced to navigate potentially dozens - or even hundreds - of separate bargaining units....

[Video] Police Officers Under Scrutiny After Beating Up Innocent Man Who Naively Gave Directions To Killer

Edit Inquisitr 21 Apr 2016
The man was later identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley. He killed himself after murdering two police officers ... He is accused of offering a false instrument for filing and official misconduct ... Names ... Dailymail also reported that Brinsley, who killed himself with the same weapon, had posted on Instagram that he wanted to put ‘wings on pigs’ and referenced Eric Garner, whose police chokehold death led to protests against the NYPD....

Clinton and Cruz visiting Philadelphia to focus on Pa. primaries

Edit Lehigh Valley 20 Apr 2016
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is returning to Philadelphia on Wednesday as Pennsylvanians prepare to vote in their state's primary the following week. On the Republican side, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz isn't even waiting for the New York results to campaign in Pennsylvania. He has scheduled an organizing rally for Tuesday ... Sen ... Garner died in 2014 at age 43 on Staten Island after police subdued him and kept in a chokehold ... ....

Victoria Wood obituary

Edit The Guardian 20 Apr 2016
One of the great British comedians and all-round entertainers of her generation who wrote dramas, sketches and popular sitcoms. When Victoria Wood was about six, she had an epiphany in Buxton. “It was the first time I’d seen anyone stand on their own on stage,” she recalled ... But Victoria Wood did ... Not only was Wood a woman in a traditionally male world but she was also a northerner loosening the Oxbridge chokehold on comedy at the time ... ....

Syrian families...

Edit Topix 19 Apr 2016
Boston bombing survivor throws out first pitch on the third anniversary of marathon attack with actor Jake Gyllenhaal NYPD launches investigation into shocking video that shows a ......

A look at police use-of-force cases before Freddie Gray

Edit Denver Post 19 Apr 2016
Here of five of those cases.. ERIC GARNER. A 43-year-old black father of six, Garner died July 17, 2014, during an encounter near his Staten Island home with the New York Police Department, after an officer appeared to place him in a chokehold while arresting him for illegally selling loose cigarettes ... MICHAEL BROWN....
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