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The Mayor of Béziers, France, has placed posters around his town bragging about the size of the new guns his police officers are carrying.

Investigators have focused their efforts on Bobbi Kristina Brown’s boyfriend, Nick Gordon, as they try to determine whether or not foul play was involved in the events that left her facedown in a bathtub, according to a new report.

In the wake of the backlash over Michael Brown’s death, Ferguson police are testing less-than-lethal devices that will fit on their handguns and transfer energy from a normally lethal bullet to a slower moving, larger ball that will hurt but not kill suspects.

A controversy has erupted in Stockton, CA over the fatal shooting of a man armed with a claw hammer. According to the police, just before midnight on Tuesday, they received a call from Matautu Nuu’s family, frightened because he was drunk, armed with a hammer, and vandalizing the residence.

After an hour of testimony by citizens speaking on the need for a civilian-led board to oversee St. Louis police, a hearing held at City Hall devolved into chaos and had to be canceled when protesters refused to allow police officers to testify.

Three masked thieves rammed an SUV into the glass doors of the Wells Fargo History Museum in San Francisco, California Tuesday, holding a guard at gunpoint while they pilfered gold artifacts. Leaving the SUV behind, the smash and grabbers hopped into a getaway sedan and off into the night.

Savvy drug smugglers, seeking innovative methods to evade federal authorities at the border, are using heavy-duty magnets to affix illegal substances to the undercarriage of “trusted traveler’s” vehicles in Mexico, reportedly targeting the drivers without their knowledge.

First Lady Michelle Obama will host Captain Phil Tingirides and Sergeant Emada Tingirides of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in a box seat at Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address in Washington, D.C. The First Lady’s invitation comes as “#BlackLivesMatter” demonstrations have targeted the LAPD, among other departments, for alleged brutality against unarmed black suspects.

One of the few pro-police rallies to take place in the midst of a plethora of anti-police protests throughout California was almost interrupted by counter-protesters in the state’s capital city of Sacramento on Sunday.

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer gave his first “State of the City” address Wednesday night, touting his accomplishments since being elected to the position last February, and laying out his vision for the year ahead–including plans for a new Chargers

Two men allegedly approached a woman and her two year old son at a Covina, California market multiple times Wednesday night, persistent in their attempts to purchase the woman’s child, ultimately throwing $100 at the woman as she escaped the men in the market’s parking lot.

A Southern California man was taken into custody by deputies Friday for throwing a Playboy Mansion-themed birthday party for his 18-year-old daughter, reports The Daily Mail.

Reports say that graffiti threatening to kill police officers was found in a district of Queens, New York Monday.

Shanghai authorities came under heavy criticism after a stampede killed thirty-six people on New Year’s Eve. Family members of the deceased slammed the government for skimping on security at an event that attracts thousands of people. But now these family members claim the Chinese government is censoring and monitoring their moves.

San Francisco police fatally shot a man on Sunday after he trespassed onto clearly marked, restricted police property and pulled out what appeared to be a pistol but turned out to be an airsoft BB gun. The man was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died shortly afterwards from his wounds.

Search crews discovered a small plane crashed in the woods of southwest Kentucky and four dead Friday after a distressed seven-year-old girl showed up at a nearby residence asking for help, telling the resident she had survived the accident.

New Year’s Eve protests began early in St. Louis as protesters rushed the doors of the 1915 Olive St Police Headquarters in Missouri with chants of, “We say fight back.”

MCALLEN, Texas – A Mexican man who is in the U.S. illegally remains behind bars and stands accused of assaulting his girlfriend and kidnapping her baby.

The autopsy report for Ezell Ford was released by the Los Angeles Police department on Monday and, according Police Chief Charlie Beck, corroborates the accounts given by LAPD officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villages.

Only two days after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, another black man was fatally shot in Los Angeles by police officers. Still more than four months after the August 11 shooting occurred, the autopsy report has not been released.

Texas City Police shot and killed Carlton Smith, Jr., 20, outside of a nightclub called HT’s Lounge early Friday morning. Smith’s family is disputing whether it was necessary to shoot him, but the owner of the club says that his surveillance camera footage supports the police’s version of events.

Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Los Angeles Police Department on Sunday to stage an “All Lives Matter” rally in support of police, who have come under increasing criticism from the “Black Lives Matter” movement in Los Angeles and around the country. A small “Black Lives Matter” counter-demonstration gathered opposite.

In Vallejo, CA, roughly 30 miles north of San Francisco, roughly 60 demonstrators rallied Saturday in support of their police officers, according to the Vallejo Times-Herald. The police supporters met in front of the Vallejo Police Department, holding signs emblazoned with messages such as “police lives matter.”

LOS ANGELES, California — Protesters at a rally in Los Angeles on Saturday made race the central issue.

Only the sound of footsteps were audible as protesters marched down the streets of St. Louis past City Hall with duct tape on their mouths in silent protest over the police-involved shooting deaths of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York . Activists got loud, however, as they ended up down at the landmark St Louis Arch, flooding the entrance to the Visitor’s Center chanting, “FTP, F**k the Police” and “Hands Up Don’t Shoot.”

Police officers in the small North Texas town of Pelican Bay were busy pulling over drivers all day on Christmas, but they were acting more like Santa Claus than traffic law enforcers.

A police officer working in the Framingham, MA Police Department got a belated Christmas present Friday morning: a young woman carrying a doughnut box filled with raw bacon and sausage allegedly hurled them at him and smeared the meat on the window in front of him. Lindsay McNamara, 24, who claimed God told her to go “feed the pigs,” was arrested immediately and charged with disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property.

One group of “Black Lives Matter” protesters in the San Francisco Bay area has summarily dismissed efforts by three regional police unions to initiate “constructive dialogue.” Responding to Wednesday’s call from the Oakland Police Officers Association and police unions in

A Queens man arrested after he was allegedly overheard vowing to kill white cops in New York was found to have an “arsenal” of weapons, including bulletproof vests and firearms with serial numbers filed off, the NYPD reported. Police say that

The Oakland Police Officers Association has joined police unions in San Francisco and San Jose in condemning recent violence in anti-police protests across the Bay Area and the nation, singling out “politicians and media pundits” for their “vilification of front-line public servants.”

(AP) Protesters gathered around a service station in Berkeley, MO Wednesday night, one day after a white police officer killed a black 18-year-old who police say pointed a gun at him. Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo

Roughly 200 protestors blocked streets in the Castro district of San Francisco on Christmas Eve, in solidarity with nationwide demonstrations against the deaths of black male suspects in confrontations with police. (Photo: Jamie Santos/Facebook)

Indonesian Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo announced the country will stop administering virginity tests for female civil servants at the Institute of Public Administration. Students attend the college to train for civil and regional administration jobs.

Ferguson Action held a weekend ‘Transition and Transform Mass Meeting” at the same location where Ferguson protesters were trained before riots, looting, and arson ignited upon the announcement a grand jury chose not to charge police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

Many Oakland police officers wrote Thanksgiving off as a total loss and will likely need to do the same this Christmas because of protesters who are relentlessly demonstrating their fury over the deaths of black men at the hands of police.

Six-time NBA Most Valuable player, holder of six league championship rings and the greatest scorer in the history of the game, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, cited Ecclesiastes when contemplating the meaning of two executed police officers in New York City and the nationwide upheaval caused by the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner on the streets of the Big Apple.