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Added on the 04/08/2015 23:40:36 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
Defence and civil party lawyers arrive at a court in Paris where four men are on trial for their alleged complicity in the 2017 killing of police officer Xavier Jugelé on the Champs-Elysées, an attack claimed by the Islamic State group. IMAGES
Demonstrators gather outside the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Minneapolis to protest the shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man shot dead by a police officer during a traffic stop on Sunday. They were out in the streets defying a 7pm curfew put in place Monday until early morning Tuesday. IMAGES
One person was shot in undetermined circumstances as hundreds of people were protesting the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte on Wednesday. Protesters and police clashed in the city centre as authorities fired volleys of teargas cannisters at the demonstrators. Police claim that Scott was carrying a gun, while his family is saying he was carrying a book. His death is the latest incident in recent police killings of black males.
Violent clashes continued in Milwaukee on Sunday night, as protests grow following the police shooting of 23-year-old Sylville Smith. Shots were fired during the second night of protests, according to police sources, as police and protesters clashed on the streets. Hours after the incident, crowds flooded onto the streets of Wisconsin's main city to protest his killing. A police car, a gas station, a bank and numerous shops were set alight during the unrest.
Police officers and civilians ran for cover as sniper fire rained down around the Dallas city center on Thursday. Police announced that a fifth officer had died after being fatally shot by so-far unidentified assailants. Sniper rounds ripped through the Dallas night during a protest against the recent fatal police killings of African Americans Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile. The assailants were apparently targeting police - 11 officers were shot, 5 fatally.