CRIME

The DC chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing federal law enforcement officers of violating the constitutional rights of peaceful demonstrators who were forcibly cleared from a park north of the White House so President Donald Trump could walk through for a photo op earlier this week.

The lawsuit accuses officers of attacking the demonstrators without warning and using excessive force — including deploying incendiary devices such as flashbangs, tear gas, smoke canisters, pepper balls, and rubber bullets.

“This case is about the President and Attorney General of the United States ordering the use of violence against peaceful demonstrators who were speaking out against discriminatory police brutality targeted at Black people,” the complaint, filed in federal court in Washington, DC, begins.

A man has been arrested in connection to a shooting that left another man critically wounded in a car on FM 1960.

The shooting happened at about 10 a.m. Thursday near Ella.

Alan Anthony Ruth, 25, was arrested overnight without incident, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Friday.

"They were waiting to turn, the suspect pulled up right next to them. The suspect pulled a weapon and fired directly into the vehicle,” said Gilliland. “The passenger that was in the front of the vehicle was struck one time by a gunshot wound to the head.”

The suspect sped from the scene, but an image of his vehicle was captured by nearby surveillance cameras. Investigators were looking for a gray or silver Mercury Grand Marquis with a black hood.

The children and other adult in the car were not hurt. An ambulance took the victim to Houston Northwest Hospital where he was said to be in critical condition.

Ruth, the alleged shooter, was already wanted on a warrant for two counts aggravated assault-serious bodily injury stemming from another shooting incident.

In that incident, Ruth is accused in a double shooting on Nov. 4.

Investigators with the Houston Police Department believe Ruth shot two men in the 17000 block of Imperial Valley Drive. One of the victims told police he knew Ruth from high school and they use to be friends. He says he shot Ruth in April 2017, according to court documents. The second victim, who was left paralyzed from the November shooting, told police he knew Ruth, too, but they were not friends.

Cape Town – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has been lax in efforts to clamp down on the illicit tobacco trade, but its acting commissioner Mark Kingon is resolute in changing this, Parliament heard on Wednesday.

A 24-year-old man has run into trouble with the law for threatening to kill his own father over a mobile phone.

Yakubu Abukari was said to have chased the father out of the family house with a cutlass – forcing him to spend the night with a neighbour.

French police have taken billionaire Vincent Bolloré into custody as part of an investigation into how his company won the contracts to operate two container ports in West Africa in 2010.