Cops won’t release video of shooting

Cops won’t release video of shooting

columbia, s.c.

When a white police officer in South Carolina chased a black man 9 miles by car, then shot him to death in his driveway last year, the shooting was captured on the officer’s dashboard camera — a video that state police have steadfastly refused to release.

North Augusta officer Justin Craven tried to pull 68-year-old Ernest Satterwhite over for drunken driving, then followed him with blue lights to his home after Satterwhite refused to stop in February 2014, authorities said. When Satterwhite stopped in his driveway, Craven ran up to his car and fired several shots through the closed door, telling deputies later that Satterwhite tried to grab his gun, according to a report from Edgefield County deputies who joined the chase.

Now Craven faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of misconduct in office and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.

2 gunmen are killed near cartoon contest

garland, texas

Authorities in a Dallas suburb say two armed men who opened fire on a security officer outside a contest for cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad have been killed.

The city of Garland said in a statement on its Facebook page Sunday night that two men drove up to the Curtis Culwell Center and began shooting at a security officer. The statement says Garland Police Department officers engaged the gunmen, who were both shot and killed. It doesn’t say whether the shooting was related to the event.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative was hosting a contest that would award $10,000 for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Protest turns violent

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL

Several thousand people from Israel’s Jewish Ethiopian minority protested in Tel Aviv against racism and police brutality Sunday, shutting down a major highway and clashing with police on horseback into the night.

The protest was mostly peaceful during the day, but by nightfall became violent with at least 20 officers hurt and “multiple protesters” arrested, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

Italy: At least 10 migrants found dead

ROME

Italy’s Coast Guard and Navy as well as tugs and other commercial vessels joined forces to rescue migrants in at least 16 boats Sunday, saving hundreds of them and recovering 10 bodies off Libya’s coast, as smugglers took advantage of calm seas to send packed vessels across the Mediterranean.

The Italian Coast Guard said the bodies were found in three rescue operations off Libya’s coast. The Coast Guard was being aided by a tug and a merchant ship in some of the rescue efforts. In one of those rescues, a cargo ship found three migrants dead and 105 survivors on a dinghy in the waters north of Tripoli, Libya.

Pilot to fly solar plane across Pacific

beijing

A pilot said Sunday that he is anxious but excited about flying a solar plane solo from China to Hawaii on the longest leg of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of fuel.

Andri Borschberg, 62, is due to fly over the Pacific Ocean for five days and five nights in the plane that has more than 17,000 solar cells on its wings to power its motors and recharge its batteries for nighttime flying.

The Solar Impulse 2 set off from Abu Dhabi in March and has stopped in Oman, India and Myanmar. Borschberg and another Swiss pilot, Bertrand Piccard, are taking turns flying the single-seater Swiss plane in a five-month journey to promote renewable energy use.

Associated Press