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Crime
New Zealand charge 3 cops with manslaughter
Three New Zealand Police officers have been charged with manslaughter, authorities said on Wednesday, following the death of a man in custody last year. The 55-year-old man died while in custody at the Hawera Police Station, some 190 kilometres north of Wellington, in the early hours of June 1, 2019. The charges allege the officers, who cannot be named for…
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United States
Post-mortem declares Floyd’s death a homicide
The death of George Floyd, which triggered widespread protests across the US, has been declared a homicide in an official post-mortem examination on Tuesday. The 46-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest while being restrained by Minneapolis police, the report found. It listed Mr Floyd’s cause of death as “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression”. Meanwhile, President Donald…
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