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A white Cleveland police officer who climbed onto the hood of a car and fired dozens of rounds at an unarmed black couple in 2012 was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter May 23.

A grand jury indicted six Baltimore police officers May 21 over the death of African-American Freddie Gray in their custody last month, a state attorney said.    

Numerous protesters were arrested for defying a curfew in Baltimore May 1 night, hours after six police were charged over the death of an African-American man who was in their custody.
  
The protesters struck a defiant chord with police, even after the six officers were charged earlier in the day over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray.
  

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio denied that the city had toughened its policing strategy in response to the riots in Baltimore after some lawmakers accused the city's police force of overly aggressive tactics in its handling of protests on April 29 at night.

Protesters marched against police violence in cities from New York to Denver on April 29, and a large demonstration in Baltimore ended peacefully two days after rioting over the death of a black man injured in police custody. 

Protesters rampaged through downtown Baltimore on April 25 as the city's biggest demonstration yet over the death of a young African-American man in police custody turned violent.
  

The troubled US community of Ferguson, Missouri, scene of months of protests and racial tension, was on a knife edge again on March 12 after two police officers were shot.
      
Police launched a manhunt, raiding a brick bungalow four blocks from the Ferguson police station and municipal court where the shooting occurred amid a late-night demonstration Wednesday.
      

Two police officers were shot during a protest outside the Ferguson, Missouri police headquarters early on March 12, police said, just hours after the city's police chief quit following a damning justice report into his department.
   

Swiss police arrested a man in Zurich following a shooting on Thursday morning, the New Zuercher Zeitung reported.

The arrested person was taken to hospital with gunshot wounds.

The reasons for the shooting that occurred during a large-scale police operation in the city were not immediately known.

A 42-year-old woman shot her younger brother in front of the apartment block in Evosmos, western Thessaloniki, where the man lives in an argument over financial dispute.

The 41-year-old was hospitalized for treatment to minor injuries sustained from the shooting while his sister faced charges of attempted manslaughter and illegal weapons possession.