'Don't shoot our kids!' Hundreds of Hong Kong mothers stage rally to protest against controversial extradition bill as cracks start to show among pro-Beijing politicians who support the proposed law. #Retract
Hong Kong police claim they 'had no choice' but to use tear gas and rubber bullets to suppress 'violent' protesters as activists go digitally dark to avoid Beijing's surveillance. 😡🔥 #Retract
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A stunning image shared by NASA shows how two spiral galaxies are being slowly stretched out thanks to gravitational forces as they pass through each other. Captioned 'The Mighty Mice', the shot taken by an astronomer using a small, New Mexico based telescope shows the Mice Galaxies and their tails of stars and gas. The two galaxies, which lie 290 million light-years away, will continue to collide with each other repeatedly until they eventually become one, in billions of years' time.
Hong Kong police rejected accusations of excessive use of force during clashes in Wednesday's protests against a controversial extradition bill with China. In addition to water cannons, pepper spray and tear gas, riot police fired rubber bullets and beanbag rounds at unarmed protesters in the worst unrest the city has witnessed in decades. The violence left 81 people injured, the hospital authority said. Influential legal bodies and rights group criticised the tough tactics, accusing police of over-stepping lawful powers and launching an unprecedented operation against the much larger mass of peaceful protesters as videos of officers attacking retreating demonstrators, bystanders and journalists have gone viral.🔥 #Retract
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Bodycamera footage released by Appleton police in Wisconsin show the moments leading up to a fatal shooting of a firefighter in May. The Outagamie County District Attorney said two Appleton police officers were justified in their shooting of Ruben Houston last month. The shooting also left a firefighter dead, a police officer injured, and an innocent bystander with gunshot wounds. According to investigators, Houston opened fire on first responders after they came to his aid when he was found unresponsive on a Lamers transit bus. (cam1 & cam2) 🔫👮🏻♂️ #shooting
Hundreds of cops are found to be members of racist, misogynistic and homophobic Facebook groups where they mocked black shooting deaths and laughed about violence against women but only ONE has been fired. But US police forces have failed to dismiss the majority as experts in online hatemongering claim the system has been infiltrated by white supremacists and misogynists. #facepalm
One dead and two injured after 'a man with a mohawk' opens fire in a California Costco and causes massive stampede. Witnesses say a shooting at a Costco store southeast of Los Angeles sparked a stampede which killed one and left at least two injured. 'The shooting incident at the Costco in Corona has been stabilized,' the Corona Police Department said on their social media. 'There is no apparent threat to our community from any outstanding persons.' 😱👮🏻♂️