22 People Shot Over the Weekend in New York, NYPD Says
The New York City Police Department confirmed that 22 people have been shot over the Father’s Day weekend, including several deaths. Police said a man was shot and killed on East 12th Street near Avenue C in Manhattan, according to ABC7. NYPD officials told the station that two other fatal shootings occurred in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn. A man walking down Milford Street approaching another man who was washing his car before opening fire and killing him, according to the report. In another incident in Brooklyn on Saturday, police found a 29-year-old with a gunshot wound outside of 203 Montauk Avenue in East New York, reported the New York Post and other news outlets. The man told officers that he was watching fireworks when he felt a…
TAIPEI鈥擟hinese air force jets, including at least one bomber, briefly entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone on Monday, before being warned off by its air force, the island’s military said, the eighth such encounter in two weeks.
The encounter came on the day President Tsai Ing-wen oversaw a test flight of a new locally-developed advanced trainer jet as she pushes to boost democratic Taiwan’s defenses, particularly as China ramps up its own military modernization.
Taiwan’s air force named the Chinese aircraft involved as the H-6 bomber and J-10 fighter jet, but did not say how many planes in total flew into the identification zone to the island’s southwest.
The Chinese air force received verbal warnings to leave via radio, and patrolling Taiwanese fighters also “proactively drove off” the aircraft, Taiwan’s air force said in a short statement, without giving details.
The H-6 is a nuclear-capable bomber based on an old Soviet design that has participated in several such drills near Taiwan, including what China calls “island encirclement” exercises around the Chinese claimed-island.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory, and has previously said its drills near the island are routine and designed to show Beijing’s determination to protect its sovereignty. Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by autocratic China.
By Ben Blanchard
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Seattle Police Release Body Camera Footage of Response to Deadly ‘CHOP’ Shooting
The Seattle Police Department released the body camera footage of officers responding to a fatal shooting in the so-called CHOP, or Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, over the weekend. “This is inside the area referred to as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP),” the department wrote in a statement. “Officers attempted to locate a shooting victim but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers’ safe access to the victims.” Officers responded to reports of shots fired at Cal Anderson Park, located in the area of CHOP, which demonstrators blocked off earlier this month following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. The Seattle Police Department effectively abandoned its East Precinct, located on Capitol Hill, following nights of protests and unrest. The department confirmed that the shooting killed a 19-year-old man…
