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Month: April 2021

With virtual reality police training, Sacramento tries to ‘get to a much better place’

With police training programs across the country under intense scrutiny after Derek Chauvin’s murder conviction, one department in California is using several high-profile police killings of Black Americans as it trains the next generation of officers to better anticipate and respond to high-risk encounters. The Sacramento Police Department’s training techniques have been largely shaped by

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Gobierno de Biden anuncia operación para combatir el tráfico de personas, incluido el de la frontera

(CNN) — El gobierno de Biden anunció este martes una operación enfocada en combatir las organizaciones criminales transnacionales, incluidos los traficantes de personas que facilitan los cruces ilegales de migrantes en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. La administración ha enfrentado a los traficantes de personas que, en algunos casos, comercializan sus servicios en Facebook.

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Tennessee governor declares that Covid-19 is no longer a health emergency with only 25% of state’s residents fully vaccinated

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signaled Tuesday that he will not renew any public health orders, saying “Covid-19 is no longer a health emergency in our state,” though only 25% of the state’s population is fully vaccinated. “A widely available vaccine changes everything and it’s a new season in Tennessee,” Lee said in a tweet. Health

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US Capitol rioters charged in Sicknick case were armed with bear spray but only used pepper spray, prosecutors say

The Justice Department on Tuesday abandoned the idea that pro-Trump rioters had used bear spray against US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during the January 6 riot, a major change after implying for weeks that bear spray, not pepper spray, had been deployed. Prosecutors addressed the seemingly small but significant difference at a detention hearing

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