Seattle City Council votes to slash number of cops

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WANTED! An 18-year-old Washington man is wanted on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the shooting death of another teen in Seattle's former Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone. According to investigators, police identified Marcel Levon Long as the suspect within a day of the June 20 slaying, but they have not tracked him down. He is believed to have fled the state, according to the King County Prose cuting Attorney's Office. “Extremely high quality” surveillance video of the scene near Cal Anderson Park, close to the Seattle Police Department’s temporarily abandoned East Precinct building, allegedly shows Long pull a handgun after a conversation with 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson. Anderson was taken to the Harborview Medical Center in a private vehicle. When officers arrived there, he was already dead. According to police, the medical examiner found he had been shot at least four times.

MADISON, Wis. — An oversight board demoted Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales after questioning how he handled multiple incidents, including ordering officers to fire tear gas and pepper spray at protesters demonstrating over George Floyd’s death. The city’s Fire and Police Commission unanimously voted Thursday evening to demote Morales to captain after three and a half years on the job. The chief’s attorney, Franklyn Gimbel, says Morales’ relationship with the commission has been deteriorating since he refused the chairman’s demand to fire an officer involved in the arrest of Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown in January 2018. Most recently the commission criticized Morales for authorizing tear gas to disperse protesters. “His conduct is unbecoming, filled with ethical lapses and flawed decisions, making it inconsistent with someone who has the privilege of leading the Milwaukee Police Department,” Commissioner Raymond Robakowski said. #facepalm

Our hearts go out to officer Valentin "Val" Martinez in the San Fernando Valley Mission Division, we love him and our prayers go out to his family. #RIP

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A California man has been robbed of his entire life savings outside a bank just moments after withdrawing $200,000 to help his family during the coronavirus. Francisco Cornejo was making his way back to his car in Huntington Park on July 30 when the thief struck. Footage filmed by an onlooker shows as Cornejo is knocked to the ground and the suspect, wearing a black hoodie, runs off with his bag of money.

Meanwhile, in India. A passenger plane with 191 people on board slided of the runway.

EL PASO, Texas — A 20-year-old El Paso man is facing animal cruelty charges in the wake of a video posted to social media.

A demonstrator is pictured amid smoke rising from tear gas during a protest near parliament in Beirut, Lebanon August 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

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Lexington County Sheriff's Deputy Cameron Cain is recovering after he was seriously injured in a crash while he was in his patrol car. The group Serve and Connect, a non-profit that supports fostering partnerships between the community and police, says the incident involving Deputy Cameron Cain happened back on July 27.