(Reuters) — New York police fatally shot a man armed with a knife on Tuesday after he stabbed a rabbinical student from Israel in a Brooklyn synagogue, and authorities quickly stepped up security at Jewish houses of worship around the city, police said. The suspect, Calvin Peters, 49, who has a history of mental illness,…
Several prominent rabbis and the president of a national teachers union were arrested Thursday night while protesting police brutality. Rabbis Sharon Kleinbaum, Jill Jacobs, and Shai Held, along with Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, were taken into custody for blocking traffic to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict…
My hands are quaking with rage right now, but I will choose to write rationally. I can’t believe this has happened again, and happened here, in my own backyard. “This” being a grand jury failing even to indict a white police officer for killing an unarmed black man. Not even a trial. Not even a…
An Israel Border Police officer was indicted in the shooting death of a 17-year-old Palestinian. The officer, who was not named, was charged Monday in Jerusalem District Court with manslaughter in the May shooting during Nakba Day protests in the West Bank. He has been ordered held in prison until the end of the proceedings….
The police chief of the popular Greek tourist island of Hydra was photographed giving the Nazi salute while on a trip to Germany. The Ethnos Sunday newspaper published the picture of Lt. Yiorgos Kagkalos, which it reported was taken in 2011 during a visit to the Nuremberg Transport Museum. The publication follows persistent reports suggesting…
A Tunisian man who hurled a metal bar at police during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Paris was sentenced to two months in prison. The prosecution wanted a one year sentence for the 34-year-old Tunisian national, but the Paris Correctional Tribunal sentenced him to two months in jail and another two months suspended sentence, the news…
The Israel Police recommended that Arab Israeli Knesset Member Hanin Zoabi be put on trial after Zoabi insulted and threatened police officers during an interrogation. Police recommended Tuesday that Zoabi, a member of the Balad party, be tried for inciting to violence, making threats and insulting a public servant, according to Haaretz. Zoabi was interrogated…
A Jewish Chicago police officer was awarded a $540,000 judgment against a former superior who allegedly taunted him for years with anti-Semitic and racist remarks. On Monday, a federal jury found in favor of Detlef Sommerfield, a German-Jewish immigrant who had accused retired Chicago Police Sgt. Lawrence Knasiak of calling him a “f*cking Jew boy,”…
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